live from paris. let's look what is making headlines. the u.k. looking set for a pre-christmas election as jeremy corbyn drops his opposition to a december poll. latest from our london correspondent. 18 killed and scores injured after iraqi security forces opened fire in kabbalah. acrossds forced to flee california after wilildfires ripped through parched arereas f

the state. are setet to people lolose power tuesdayay as offics try to stopop cables from triggering up flares. ♪ >> jeremy corbyn has announced he is no longer opposed to a december general election. the decisionached since the threat of no deal is off the table. election.e ready for we are going to go out with a strong message of how we treat our society. we said we wanted an election. we do want an election, but we

want no deal taken off the table. off the table. we are going to go out there the biggest campaign this party has mounted. boris johnson is set to push for a general election next month. the prime minister will be publishing a bill that will only need a simple majority to succeed. not two thirds as required. he will have to require support from liberal democrats and the smp for that to pass. is clear change, it the way for a december general election. >> it looks like the united kingdom is set for a december general election after jeremy corbyn has announced his party

is ready to fight the most radical campaign ever. it is the fourth time the prime mps for is going to ask a yes from them. he fell way short. a significant development is the shift in the labor position. the prime minister will make a fresh attempt to get mps support in parliament late. liberal democrats want a ninth

of december poll. confident labor leader, polls show it would be the tories who would win an election and not the labour party. one has to be careful, not just the usual precautions. general elections have a momentum of their own. the third thing is if there is one defining factor, significant , andr we have witnessed

exit of the united kingdom and a divorce from the other eu countries, is that brexit goes past party loyalties. it is significant the labor leader has said he is in favor, no deal having come off the table. the poll, and whatever the say, the parties are completely divided. nobody can tell what the outcome of the election will be. will it be as boris johnson hopes and believes? well?l the democrats d do the smp will do well in scotland.

we could have a dissolution this friday or the beginning of the next week of parliament. let's watch the election campaign and that december poll. at least 18 have been killed and more than 800 wounded after iraqi sick opened fire on protesters in kabbalah. it came at the end of a fourth day of protest withh thousands taken to the streets in antigovernment rallies. around 250 have died so far. simon of fulton has more. -- simona fululton has morere. they flococked in numbers to

the liberation sququare, determined to stay thehe night,s long as it takes to bring this governmentnt to a ld. last month, demonstrations w wee with forces. they killed and injured several people. to feelponse is likely more anger against the government and increase the determination againstst protests to keep goining. we have seen the growing participation of students and profesessional unions calling gr a geneneral strikike. toy a asked for members not work in public courtrts.

a asked for the members to refrain from going to work and join t the protesters in the streets. the participation of the students as well as professional unions has given this u uprisina boost in terms of turnout and diveversity. backgroundsvaried are takinghow mumuch longer wile able to sustain it and how much longer will the government begin call for fresh elections? >> syrian government forces and the turkish military have reportedly crashed for the first time. agency,g to the news artillery and machine gun fire south of the

border town. wereleast six soldierss reported wounded in the fighting. patrolling then northern border as part of the cease-fire deal. that deadline is today at 1500. turkey is saying some kurdidish fighters are still on the ground. we have to stress we have not had official confirmation regards to those clashes from the e syrians or te turks. that i is an important, strategc town. from theews comomes

sysyrian obsbservatory. well-informed. on the map, it is a strategic border town inside the buffer zone. it fell into the hands of the turks quite quickly. time for the turks to seize the city. kurdish fighters were well implanted in the center and they ended up being undersea surrounded by turkish forces, where shelling and heavy operations with the turkish proxies. they have syrian rebels.

syrian fighters opposed to bashar al-assad who are doing the dirty work for them. they are on the front line and they are on the ground with turkey's airplanes behind their military might. it is volatile, the situation. we do not know what is happening. happened southe in a small village, according to the syrian observatory. tensews the situation is and complicated. you have bashar al-assad, who has been moving up north. if these clashes are confirmed, they could be between syrian government troops and rebels

ally to turkey. it shows if these clashes have occurred, the situation is tense and there will be a lot of democratic work hind the scenes. saying there are remnants of kurdish mililitants. is that deadline likely to be met? >> the cease-fire that was brokered before the deadline, that was violated on both sides. was an agreement of mutual understanding between russia and the turkish government, which gave way to this deadline coming to an end. today, both sides have said violence has been ongoing, fighting ongoing.

they are saying turkey and its proxies were conducting .perations, attacking civilians it is difficult to talk about it. majore can say is two have proved successful. at the same time, you have bashar al-assad's troops moving north. he is gaining territory, conducting a packed with the -- conducting a pact with the kurdish fighters. they are supporting bashar al-assad. the kurdish forces caught in between now with bashar al-assad. they have lost the territories they have held. they are hoping for at on ami and they have been accusing turkey of committing crimes against civilians.

major players faface-to-face alg that border. >> protests continue. a political solution needs to be found in the next few days and not weeks to avoid a complete economic collapse. the leadership accusing them of corruption. >> with one kick she became an icon. when she drop kick a bodyguard shooting protesters. it was caught on camera and shared across the country. >> i was not scared. we are dying. i got closer to him and said shoot me.

it is not his right to carry weapons against us. walls of women have popped up across the country. knowing both sides are afraid to touch them. manyon maintains discriminator laws. lacks prosecution allows domestic violence to go unpunished. >> when it comes to organizational protesting for our rights, we have e independet women who live by themselves and work for themselves. work ine protesters shifts, some staying overnight.

for these women, it is their obligation to fight for their country future. official for the white house is due to testify tuesday in the impeachment inquiry of donald trump. the official ignoring an order from the administration to not cooperate with the investigation, agreeing to teststify out of what he says ia sense of duty. the house of representatives is set to take its first vote on the impeachment inquiry on thursday, forcing politicians to go on the record for or against the investigation. inusands have been evacuated the hills around los angeles as a wild f fire ribs drew the are. -- rips through ththe area. threaten some 90,000 properties across an expanding evacuation zone.

power has been turned off to hundreds of thousands in the region. our reporter has the latest. the latest front in the fight against california's flames. thousands of homes are under threat after a new blaze broke out monday. it is named the getty fire, after the getty center that overlooks the remains of the arid scrubland. one resident is relieved his house was spared. >> i saw the sky lit up. i jumped in my car and drove up to the fire line. there were embers blowing into these houses. tried toefigighters contain the threat, tens of thousands have been forced to flee. mama do not knknow when they wil

bebe able toto return. calls.d three phone the first twoere from the fire department saying get readyy to bebe evacuated. the last call was evacuate now. >> the getty fire is not the only one raging. the kincade fire interrupted last week in sonoma wine country, north of santa rosa. is 15%ls say it contained, but it could take weeks, if not months to fully extinguish. it has destroyed dozens of homes with more structures at risk. the fires are among more than one dozen burning in california. weather is going to make the task of taking them on harder. is makingder of what

news in the u.k. looking set for a pre-christmas election as jeremy corbyn drops his opposition to a december pole. andle killed in schools injured after iraqi forces opened fire in kabbalah. itit is titime for business new. have been looking at how markets have reacted to the news from london that jeremy cororbyn is going to o back a vote next montnth. >> we look first of t the currey marketets. there was s a spee in n the vale thehe pound. is raising some falls we had early in the day. the pound looking steady. investors will be worried an early election means more uncertainty for the u.k.

economy, but there are commentators saying an election makes no deal more unlikely. this is the picture on the stock market. london ftse 100 trading down. that happens when sterling gets ststronger. we havee falls in paris and ankfkfurt. sharares in airbus havee writte- an indianen after low-cost carrier is to buy more than 300 planes at the value of $33 billion. the order would be for a320 neo's. this comes days after indndo reportedts biggest everr quarterly loss. the boss of boeing will face tough questions over itsts 737 x 8 plane a year after the lion air crash.

boeingng made mistakes s with te design of the max. they raced t to g get the model approved to fly again follolowig twtwdeadlyly crashes.. this w will be the first time te ceo has testified in front of congress after the craraes. >> two crashes, three hunter 46 killed. remainet of 737 max jets grounded. for the first time, the chief executive will answer questions from lawmakers. he holds his hands up. >> we know we made mistakes and got some things wrong. we own that end we are fixing them. >> he says boeing made changes to the anti-stall system. they had developed a software update which will be installed races toanes as boeing get the 737 back in the sky.

>> we have flown 700 test flights with the software. dozens and dozens of simulations with customers. we are updating training packckages. it is a holistic solution that will give us confidence t this airplane will be one of the safest to fly. >> the scandal has put boeing relationship with administrators. lawmakers are looking at whether the system of certifying aircraft needs an overhaul. the cost.l counting it has set aside billions toto compensate a airlines who are waiting for planes to return to the sky. at bp plunged over 40% in three months the end of

september. earnings hit by lower prices and falling production because of maintenance and bad weather. they are the first to report this season. they will all be facing the consequences of weakening global demand. the company that owns tick-tock prepaparing of --- preparing an ipo for early 2020. cut jobs as part of restructurining. around five around 10% of the company's workforce. they are bracing for a ban of u.s., whiche in thee makes up 80% of their sales.. hohong kong's leadeder e expecte economy to shrhrinfor r the rest of this yeyear due too the

protests. carrie l lam described the situation asas grim. littleecession comes as surprise. the government isis under pressure. ththe economy is takining a hit after momonths of proteststs. thehere is a possibility year 2019 will face negative growth rate. >> hong kong is facing the biggest political crisis since britain returned it to china i n 1977. visitor numbers have slumped by nearly 40% in august and september, compared with last year. retailers are suffering. shops are shortening hours or remaining shuttered due to violence. sales plunged more than 25%. this is the biggest year on year drop hong kong has seen.

carrie lam has announced measures to boost the economy, injecting over 2 million euros intotruggling g businesses. the only solution is to end the violence on the streets to her. to dom committed dialogue, to listen to people and change policies. the first thing must be to stop violence. .> she released further plans the protestss look set to continue. very goodating meat is business. turned its first profit of over $4 million thanks to a jump in sales for the company in the three months at the end of september. it is s a greater trend in the popularity of alternative trends to meat. 9% until the end

of augusust. these e results were n not enouo convince investors. shares will open down sharply because investors are starting to take profits out of the company. if you are an early investor, it may be time to cash in. >> would you try those burgers? >> i would. --i wonder how they way how they would go down in france. >> it is worth a try. >> stay with us here on france 24.

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