it. twenty four twenty four .com. nine pm here in the french capital youou watchingg live from paris france twenty four until bush's wilson these are the headlines with lebanon teetering on the brink of economic collapse protest is to be on the streets for a week dismiss president michele ones coals. donald british prime minister boris johnson says he's willing to extend brexit until january on the condition that a general election is held. on the twelfth of december. and the new expo gets underway at the louvre bringing together a hundred and sixty of united vinci's works commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the artist . welcome b back we begin

in l lebanon a country which has been gripped by massive protests for exactly one week meaning that banks schools universities and other businesses have been shot at these last seven days. will purchase which have been overwhelmingly peaceful were initially triggered by proposed tax hikes but they quickly escalated into a natitionwide outpouring of anger at the country's ruling class. in a televised addddress the lebanese president michelle i wound said today that he's ready for dialogue with the protest is his what he said. now do you love more plus a mean one will provide. i call on the protesters and demonstrators. i am ready to meet your representatives and hear your concerns. i will listen to your demands specifically as you listen to our fears of economic collapse manila nearer we must

do this together. to achieve your goals without causing collllapse and chaos we've been in here red folder. the president of lebanon speaking of that will for more analysis of the situation in lebanon we could speak not so lydia assad who is- a research fellow at the world in a quality lab in a fellow at the con heat middle east center thank you very y muh and he was speaking to us- lebanese peoeople taking to the streets. all seem pretty united they seem to come from a broad range of- social religious- groups- but presumably there is a small minority of people that isn't taking to the streets across lebanon i'm a assuming. that they'y're the ones you've had it pretty good or. yes inindeed so. what's your service to the industry that are so good evening and thank you for having me. and it's getting i needed to the extreme level of inequality teens- that exist in the bin. so to get your sense

of these assets. i was really low on. the top zero point 1% richest individuals in the manner in. which the making for thousands of the creation research. since 10% of the total national income. which is exactly what's receives the but on each 2% of the population well most swimming and- indeed. so there is a cure disconnection between on the one hand this- reach individual which coincides with the political class. and the rest enhanced there is such a a. s. s in them and that i think it's meant a lot what's happening at getting the benefits are you nature. the social and the current events is and these flights independently from there as the three. items okay so real awesome them society as you say. we had some

concessions announced by president are one of your own today- offering a dialogue- making various other concessions i mean how do you think all about is being. digested by the people on the streets. and yoyou can see the- and the most rational. young erik kelly after had edie's proposal two days ago and it will stay in the street and saint angry citing ass you're not- radian providing moms trust the government again other moments- response of the proposals and attempts of violence were way too long. as a result from how do you use was so i think that's. the announcement of the crypts of 50% are these implications. is really simple it's not to say the least. announcement of the reform of the dealextreme since then was frightened q. saidid we

do a major reform do that offer and. i i do not believe completely. please you will do that and finally the you know it's not the taxing at the purpose of these things do go in the right direction but at the same. time you can manage to. thanks raised as we can we need your new roles in. a century. carrots you thanknks eighteen sure evenen more they had. and we're not able to raise such a large. revenues in the last couple of months or years. okay we haven't much time left but just to briefly i mean the longer this goes on and the people out on the streets banks a shot shops a shot school the shot the greater the strain on a very delicate financial situation there eleven on do you think the country is a an- at risk of. imimminent economic c collsese.d for sure and use flora already a couple of months a and if you decide you are well don't have much to lose our- anymore so

that's why. read this also large. numbers so i'm not sure this would be your reason preventing people from staying in the streets. some other margin of the co creation one example. three hundred years because of business closing exedra might suffer. and what's your weight. and nuts. many things to lose more okay thank you. all right said lydia- i suicide to research fellow at the world in a quality lab fellow at the carnegie middle east c center thank you very muh indeed. the nato sectional version stoltenberg and the us secretary of defense mark as the gave a joint media address today. this is a meeting of defense ministers got underway in brussels. well turkey on the situation in north syria all issues topping the agenda. and of particular concern is the possibility of setbacks in the fight against the islamic state group in the region. this is curtis let fighters have been key in the battle against the

jihadists have been targeted by turkey. right across the northeast in syria. what a ceasefire which is agreed on by moscow in ankara. is reported to be holding possibles clovis custody is on the border between turkey and syria. he has this update. despite the russia tacky agreements on diplomatic efforts behind the scenes on the ground in northeastern syria. violence is on going accorording to kurdrdih forces in northeastern syria tacky is conducting still military operations. wallet sacchi on the other hand has said that that it's men came on the fire. in the town of rats online five turkish soldiers injured when they were attacked by a kurdish drone- mortar and light weaeapons t tt's a accord. to the attack kish a defense ministry- this morning we were in the town of box or callie-- the aborted sound just the

other side of a dollar- john. in s syria and we had a huge explosion. according to all sources within the national syrian army which is a group of syrian rebels. whacking along side that suck fighting with the tactics against. the ypg well one of the bases all the syrian rebels was attacked by a fight since you used. a car bomb all this showing thatt t te situtuation is extremely volatie still. in northeastern. syria and the violence on go. principals clovis cassidy reporting that. the british prime minister boris johnson said today he's willing to give parliament morore time to scrutinize his brexit plan but on the condition that a snap election is held on the twelfth of december the conservative premier announced on tuesday that debate surrounding his you divorce deal is on hold that's off the parliament were accepted the bill itself but rejected the speeded up timetable. well breaks it was meant to hapappen a week t todan the thirty first of all. and if

indeed the u. k.'s exit from the european union. the lady will be the third time that has been put on hold. is the british prime minister portions. and the whole way to get breaks down. is i think to be reasonable. with parliament and say if they- genuinely want. more time to study this excellent. deal they can have it. but they have to agree. to a general election on december the twelfth. british prime minister boris johnson that will either we aust france because benedict tapia in london what promises johnson's chances will be like in an electition. well that is the questionon sir is the leader of the house jacob reeees mogg has just confirmed. in facact. the apps. tonight the government will bee the for- they will also and peas in t the house of commons to back. t this motion o hold a generalal elelection on e twelfth of december this would

be a snap general election where in a five six term parliaments which means that. five years are on only. this is what governments- the full are elected for. butut as you say. what's the government needs is two thirds- over and p peace t o vote for this so the concrete that's four hundred and thirty fofour. and peace now we news it's- the small majorityy the two boys johnson inherited from trees may h he lost we know he- puts the government's lolost t e great mamajority of its- involvement. and when we crunch the numbers and we look at that for the conservavative pararty n when we add up the ten democratic unionist the d. u. p. votes. which on being that confidence is applied government w when we still had the scottish national party and we are the level democrats. the gigirl who wouould still not hae the numbers so what's t t prime minister needs is he needs. a party to vote for thiss as well.

it seems the majority. of labor and he's- like. i thank the leader jeremy corbyn the majority of labor mps. are all mine did not to vote for an early general election. was he was benedict of your reporting from london. now he was buried back in nineteen seventy five but today thehe remains of spain's former dictator general francisco franco exude from a state mostly in. practice coffin has now been re buried next to his wife and family volts just outside madrid but frank as descendants strongly oppose the exhumation accusing the government of trying to make political mileage. ahead of elections the country's acting prime minister pedro sanchez hailed the move as a step towards national reconciliation say that public tribute to the former dictator. was an affront to spanish democracy. well this is a legislative branch and the support of parliament have allowed the government to put an end to an anomaly among european democracies. the exaltation of a dictator in a

mausoleum. which was constructed by the dictator for the dictator and to o the glory of the dictator. this is one more stetep towards rereconciliaiation. the pipe pre minister of spain a pedal centrist speaking that. now during the course of the next four m months half a million visitors are expected to check out a new exhibition at thee louvre here in paris which commemorates the five hundredth anniversary of the death of the artist leonardo da vinci. with more than one hundred and sixty were nasals errors your era paintings and drawings on display the expo has taken more than a decade t to per pack if you want to see it you've got until t the t twenty fourth of every. twenty twenty in order to do so for more about it i'm joined now by- historian and author of a book about to defend g g. haley edwards to shp thank you very much for coming to see us i'm- lots of highly celebrated pieces have come together under one roof for this amazing exhibition. welcome people expect to see. chang's about ten of them- but

also- the drawings and- the manuscripts that- we've collected- during several decades of leonardo da vinci and so it's really an interesting- global vivision of all hihis work and researches. a couple of. p pieces meese missig from this. exhibition notably the salvatore monty that was sold almost by back in two thousand and seventeen- any other absences that we should know about- well with the mona lisa will is. will be after you've museum but couldn't be displaced from the room where it's usually exposed so i wouldn't it won't it won't be in the public exhibitions and people will have to go and- look at them and then he sat. in the roof we seem so obviously it's quite am. an important absence- but once you buy the ticket for the exhibition. you can go and have a look at them under the sun this room. joe at the same

time- it's been a very expensive and complicated. shin getting all those works assembled a- like getting the vitruvian man from venice that nearly didn't make it why was it so complicated you think getting a list together- very fragile that mostt pieces of very fragile actually the virtue of men will only be shown for several weeks instead of the whole. length of the exhibition- because of the lights and a copy expires tonight too long. and so yes so the fragility of these delicate pieces of paper that they'll just paper but obviously all imported out works. okay limited and she has been dead now for almost exactctly five hundred he is- he still has a massive appeal that would appear. how do you explain that. well i think because we don't really know the man we know the artist but notot the mn say we like to. create mysteries and fantasies about someone we don't really know. much about them and also the stories the parallel stories we sold. at that happened l like fr example w when the money lisa ws

started in in the beginning of the twentieth century- and also the all too is that who have reinterpreted the minorities out other all to pieces. and but i really think the mystery around the man who he was and what his intimate life was think that fastened fascinates always fascinates people were very courteous and what. in general. and at that exhibition is that one piece that really stands out for you it's just being. absolutely won the you cannot fail. to be dazzled by. i'm sorry well. it really know them in a very subjective way i love the band filling out a bad feeling yeah. and which is a very beautiful i would say sensual portrait of a woman- this quite rare in the renaissance- like for example when you look at the man in the style of the porortraits like adam and i mean. they they look very- wise and you know a bit almost giddy to she's in the way whereas the bad feeling it has of kinind of a almost- sensl erotic fan for talent you which

is. very rare end. of innocence in general in in the nodded of and she's work. okay well thank you very much. indeed for speaking to us and the- just to remind people who want to see if they've got until the twenty fourth. of february to check out that exhibition at the louvuvre. meanwhile thanks again to our guestst allll historian haley edwards to java thanks very much indeed. the european parliament announced today that its awarding its annual price for the defense of human rights to a jailed ethnic we get economics p professor. will have much- t. was a jail for life in china back in two thousand fourteen on separatism charges. and today's announcement that for angered beijing which considers him to be a criminal anand a terroristst. fossil fues erin okay has this report. this year's sakharov prize it stirs diplomatic tension just hours professor ilan toji the awarded european parliament recognize the activist for his efforts to promote inter ethnic dialogue

in particular. shipping out the most of it he has done much to improve the comprehension between uighurs and han in china. and has been put in prison for life. the staff. the parliamentary away old today at this we made it to the european parliament expresses its full support for his work and wishes him to be released immediately. by the chinese authorities. she needs. chinese officials almost immediately expressed outrage over the announcement calling tokyo criminal who they say was sentenced by a chinese court in accordance w with the law. thehe activivistas arrested in twenty fourteen for criticizing beijing's policies towards readers and ethnically turkic muslim minority group. sentenced to life in prison chinese authorities accuse them of stalking ethnic hatred inciting violence and encouraging separatism. born in the autonomous uighur region of xin jiang and a w weaker himself tanti has peacefully written taught about and advocated for

the ethno religious minority group since the nineteen nineties. mayo on that idea there'e's no representative forr us no newspaper of our own what can ordinary people do when they experience. in justice. some of them will function resistance. even though i am plays violence from the believe violent resistancee by there ordinary people. if governmement policies don't change a body control you're used to. you know i'm told he is just one of more than a million uighurs to have been jailed or detained in what chinese officials call re education camps. international human rights groups however say weaker inmates are subjected to serious abuses including forced assimilation. and abortions rape and torture. it's time now for check the top business news stories calls bangla is here how the cold from. tesla stock appears to be doing raw t the weld because of a row of better than expected set of results in a small- it's been a lot of doubt about the long term profitability of the automaker

its share price is soaring today now up around seventeen percent. after the california basedd company reported third quarter earnings have some a hundred and forty three million dollars. the guy that beat e evn the most optimistic projections on wall street. could be a sign that the company is finally maturing after years of heavy spending much of it to roll out its model three car. so now focus on its new model why sport utility vehicle. the doubts due process test the losses over a billion dollars in the first half of the year. despite all i its promise the company has still not turned in annual profit. on the other hand not such a good day for twitter. social media giant reported a sharp drop in third quarter profits at thirty seven million dollars it's less than a quarter of what analysts had predicted. the reason why it bugs in the company's ad targeting system. as of course make a major chunk of twitter's revenue. twitter also faces challenges over what to do with fake accounts and he speech. nevertheless continuing to attract new new users. for now says it has a hundred and forty five million of what it calls quote monetize it'll daily

users. a a lot of activityty. at of potenential out revenue. take a look. at the day's trading acaction. mixed day on wall street the dow jones down just slightly the s. and p. just over the flat line. twitter shares their down 20% are putting downward pressure on the s. and p. meanwhile the tech heavy nasdaq is up seven tenths of a percent. after positive earnings reports from both m microsoft and paypal. turning now to the major european indices which finished the day in positive territory that footsie in london up and over nine tenths of a percent. dax up around six tenths of a percent in frankford. macaque on here in paris up point 55% so after the european central bank as expected. left interest rates unchanged. that thursday also marked the end of a chapterr at the ecb. witith finl press confeference of the bank's president mario draghi who took over at the height of europe's debt crisis in twenty eleven. next week druggy will officially hand over the reins at the ecb to christina god. doing so he leaves bot behind a

legacy. it's not without controversy catherine viet takes a closer look. to his supporters he super mario the man who save the euro during its biggest crisis. to his detractors his easy money policy is an attack on savers. merry drag he defended his tenure sayingg he'e's proroud os legacy. is one general. t thing i'm proud off is that the way in which the governing council and myself. constantly pursued our mandate this is something that we collectively should be very very proud in a sense this is part of our legacy. never give up faced with the spiraling debt crisis in two thousand and twelve that threaten the you'll row draghi took charge shong he was unafraid to move the bank in new directions. the c. b. is ready to do whatever it takes. to preserve the euro and believe me it will be enough as fears rose that greece might

crash out of the single currency draghi managed to reassure investors that he would protect the euro by using unconventional monetary tools. these included slashing interest rates into negative territory for the first time generous subsidized lenending to eurozone banks and a massive program of buying tens off billions of euros of government debt every month in an attempt to cut borrowing costs for troubled eurozone economies. in point six trillion euros wortho of assets t these unprecedented steps did help to boost employment the unenemployment rate rocketed after the financial crisis hitting over 12% across the block in two thousand and thirteen. it's now dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade under eight percent. by other achievements draghi failed on the bank's mainin mission to keep prices stable. ecb's may mandate is to target an inflation rate of close to two percent. butut for

most it dragagged his presisidey the rate has remained stubbornly below that level. here in france workers protested outside i missed a factor in the western town of love was still young. earlier this month thehe tire mer announunced it was closining the plant. curly employs over six hundred people. unions want mimichelinin to o reconsidider e they say the company's doing just fine. and that woworkers have already made their share of sacrifice. come on i it's the factctory that dodoes all the wk we've worked so hard we've always d done what's being h hot we've agreed to the fallen management plans. we've been working shiftfts around thehe clock. everything we've been austin too we'veve done that t scan s some money or nothing. thanks in n lebanon will remainn closed on friday it's over safety concerns and inn mass protesests. thanknks in nanaing clothes six working days in the country with operations limited to providing monthly wages and atms. lebanon's banking association has not said when banks will reopen. but misstatements sister that'll happen as soon as the situation

stabilizes still unclear when exactly that'll be. demonstrators continued to take to the streets. next up russia is seeking to expand its influence in africa. just wrapped up the first ever russia africa summit two day meeting in t the black sea resot town of sochi. attended by russian president vladimir putin as well as delegates from all of africa's fifty four countries. moscow is hoping to boost trade with african nations which is already doubled in the last five years. now let's see some twenty billion dollars. earlier today kenya's president a plot of the russian initiative take lessons. president i alslso believe that this forum have organized offers again russia and africa the opportunity. to focus on ways and means of expanding our political economic technical troll and educational. interests in a manner that serves both our countries and promotes russia's partnership. the african union. and finally

an alliance of newspapers in france is filing a lawsuit against google takaking the t th gigiant before the country's's antitrust regulator. they're upset the google has refused to pay for displaying their content in their search results. ththat is a that's an obligation under the e. u.'s new copyright direrective that took effect in france today. very controversrsial directive- although is saying that it's going to be showing the content for free. now if alex refuses condition the search engine will only display a simple headline and link. angered media outlets of course worried that i m mean less clicks. l les ad revenue time now this is a battle with google it's worth keeping an eye on frances is that on the first country to implement this directive but- other european states will soon follow suit. yeah i'll be interesting to watch that one develop thahank you very much ad he calls tanga. with today's edition over business i'll be back i'll post nine that's in a couple minutes. ago

10/24/19 10/24/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, ththis is democracy now! from go we have secured the oil, therefore, a small number of troops will remain in the area where they have the oil. and we're going to be protecting it and w we will be deciding wht we're going to do with it in the future. amy: as president trump announces sanctions will be lifted on turkey following its invasion of northern syria, he admits some u.s. t troops will remain in