correspondents around the world. ten pm here in the french capital headlines from around the world. in france the l leage sex tape foforce a key a ally of president matt corn out of the race to be the mayor of paris. private lives of french politicianss agagain in the spotlightt in mac phones polity in trouble. i swear i wh officials investigate the spread of coronavirus china's response to it. the travail i have a one thousand seven hundred health workers a fallen sick during the outbreak. when a stumble tribunal a quick office to ask me out on but terror i locations case came in the wake of turkey's cracked down after a failed to. fuel concerns of rights abuses this

is taught from paris. is joining us this thought hit in frogs another b blow for president emmanuel macron. is pick for t the upcomining paris marital action has pulled out of the race following a sex tape leak. was among g griffo a long t time back on ally and a key figure juniors twenty seventeen- election campaign slamming what he called a vile attackck on his private life is to sites. no russian also issues of asylum in france in twenty seventeen said he posted the compromising images and messages to denounce. record the cabinets hypocrisy. from twenty fourth. plan russia's details. the league sex video death in may. death beauchemin reverses these are just a few

of the reasons he's decided to drop out of the paris mayoral race. see downtown that. yesterday a website and social media. posted vicious attacks targeting my private life have you created. fun sweet pop. music i can not expose my family and myself any more to that kind of violence. when there are no limits on. it has too far that's. one simple that's why have to withdraw my candidacy. for the paris municipal election i used to municipality buys you. clavo socialist rival incumbebent and hidalgo reacted in a tweet calling for people's private lives to be respected. with municipal elections just one month away those sudden withdrawal has shaken up local and national politics it's left president matt coles ruling

party republic on the move or l. r. e. m. without a candidate in paris the country's most influential and coveted city hall. clavo a close ally of mac call was central to the president's bid to control the capital before lauaunchingng his expected reelectction campaign n twenty twenty two. a win in paris could potentially offsets allori ms losses in rural area. where resistance to matt coles policies has sparked the yellow vest movement one of the biggest challenges to his presidency so farr. this familyy just a broken but has already been plenty of speculation ass to who might replace the french president's ally in the races monty frontsts as plates. lookig for low did king look at his the french minister of health and yes it was a is seen by many as a credible candidate someone from president macros party who could step in at short notice and enter paris's mayoral race. but between

pension reform the hospital crisis and the management of the corona virus it's hard to know how she might fare in a campaign. are you a candidate madam. just is neither the place the time to think this will differ for of another name being circular is the secretary of gender equality marlin she up bob but she is already on the municipal ballot vying for mayor of paris is fourteenth district and is said she prefers to stick to that race. delphian berkeley is the mayor of the ninth district of paris and a regional councillor she is not a member of macros party but it's close ties to prime minister edward philippe she had been campaigning for benjamin grief- before his withdrawal from the race. pierre yves bursa now is there for step and was a candidate for mayor but left the race through his supporter vote you. now they're spec. he couould get it back in. stanislas guarantee is the- officer of macacros pary and summer urging him to take up the torch and run for mayor

of the french capital. with just a month until the election we should know the name of a new candidate by monday at the latest when party officials hold their next executive meeting. so moving on now on experts from the world health organization chewing china's take part in a joint mission to investigate the corona virus outbreak said to focus on how the disease has been spreading and assess the response measures- in place that this office revealed that more than one thousand seven hundred health workers to form a since the start of the outbreak the number of infections in china now topping sixty thousand the death toll standing at about one thousand three hundred. memo japanese authorities allowed a smamall number of passengegers to o the v. quarane diamond pririncs cruise ship which is the biggest cluster of cases outside china from. twenty four ninety like ripples. driving away the most for. passengers from the diamond princess cruise ship. eleven

elderly people who've tested negative for coronavirus. now allowed to finish the quarantine on land. ambulance is also in place to take s some of the more than two hundred passengers and c crew. diagnosed with corona virus to hospital. amongst them eighty year old french citizen mission vittori. his wife linda said they had followed all the advice to avoid becoming infected. it's sad because i it's h happened en after all the precautions we've taken. we've been confined for eleven days in our cabin we haven't had any contact. there's no wifi for me to connect with my husband it's a dramatic turn of events. yeahah the diamond princess has been under quarantine a yokohama since february the third offerer a passenger who disembarked in hong kong tested positive expert say the boat has become a breeding ground for the virus. the ship is becoming a favorable environment for the virus to spread infection so

people should disembark sent of course if it is a case for people of left and there's enough space inside people can stay. but it's about time they left. the quarantine a shojo to end in five days. in the meantime n new tests are being cacarried out a more passengers with negative results are expected to be e evacuated from the ship. meanwhile a group of french nationals have been quarantined since being evacuated from china two weeks ago you have begun returning home. forty four others who arrived days later will be released o on sundaday should be set up on a smalll. their nightmare is over a first group of french nationals left carried away before sunrise. after two weeks of quarantine. police escorted them out. just like when they arrived from wuhan. the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak. after days of uncertainty they now know all one hundred and eighty

one of them are in perfect health. by this you there's no need for follow up because they've who received health certificate saying then not contagious they're exactly like you and i. some complete more. rarely have people been so eager to leave a beach side vacation resorts. the e situatin could have been tense with concerns regarding the spread of the diseaease but to medical staff say the group remained cordial considering the circumstances. sometimes he communicates by they've experienced something unprecedented while keeping a spirit of solidarity on the sites. they were friendly and- came to say goodbye it was moving. the man in move all. one hundred and fifty seven french nationals evacuateded frm wuhan or still inn quararantinen southern france most of them are due to be released on sunday. that's where the us

attorney general has criticized president trump's repeated tweeting about judicial decisions william bottling abc who would not be bullied by anyone including u. s. president. deny reportss he would choooose to- sentence recommendationss against trump ally watches starting off the president tweeted there too heavy. more his fourth twenty four should be simple. president donald trump tweets a lot criticizing democrats the media and judicial decisions he doesn't like the attorney general says these constant comments about ongoing cases have got to stop. not gonna be bullied or influenced by anybody and i said at the time whether it's congress newspaper editorial b boards or the president i'm gonnana do what i thinink is right i think it's time to stop the tweeting a bad department of justice criminal cases. this rare criticism comes amid the roger stone controversy the former trump adviser was found guilty in

november for lying to congress obstruction and witness tampering in the investigation over russia's interference in the twenty sixteen election. prosecutors recommended seven to nine years in prison trump criticized their decision and the judge and the jurors then bar abandoned the prosecutors' recommendation. critics accuse trump of interfering in the case and the bar of bowing to pressure the attorney general says he had made hisis decision before the tweets. between occurred the question as well- now what i do and- do go forward with what you think is the right decision or do you pull back because of the tweet and had just s sort of illustrates had disrupted the streets convey. democrats have accused bar of assisting tromp including the russian meddling probe nicknaming him the president's attorney. the stone controversy comes after the senate to quit to trump of impeachment charges over

allegedly pressuring ukraine to investigate. political rival joe biden. how many for yes go thou's of people were over as a turkish. try to crack down on opposition the wake of coup. monitor in jennison by justt t - one of them in office to ask other two has now been a- terra. that spot into not outcry that russia details. s she had been paid more nine years prison on terror charges. but this is double cortez now acquitted writer awfully erdo on. for her lawyer it's a victory for the freedom of expression in turkey. what does that thisis is a press case it's a case of freedom of thought and expression. from now on we hope found comes like this full journalists under arrest and on trial.l. it is urgent. honestly air to one e no really to president air to one

is a renowned turkish writer whose novels have been translated into several languages. in twenty sixteen she was one of thousands detained in the president's opposition crackdown following a failed coup against ten. arrested for her links to a pro kurdish newspaper she spent four months in prison and pre trial detention sparking international outcry. nonow some four yearsrs on she can perhaps begin to leave the case behind she's been acquitttted of the terroror chargrges against her including belononging to a terrorist group and disrupting the unity of the state. another charge of spreading terror propaganda was dropped a verdict that's relieved her mother. i chose a look to you in a number i couldn't believe it i was expecting it but i still couldn't believe it i asked many times if she was really acquitted. i could only believe it after i heard the word with a nine or ten times i'm so happy. thank you. the

fifty two year old writer now lives self exile in germany chapter it. as you might notice is val day so of love and romance around the world have fraud some people have e a love to hate the holiday may seem paradoxical given the country's a reputation as a romantic destination very the flow holes for them not hit the streets of paris. to find out why. here is the city of love. when it comes to romance the french have the reputation of being passionate first class lovers when valentine's day rolls around love is in the air well at least in shop windows. but what does the french really think about the celebration of the level of service kerr said sturgeon bicycles a division to the commission apocalypse which wiwill presume a familiar r tine they fill in the- statation a true on compared on the ship i see him live it more shop. only

a third of french cup say they sell a violent day a feb you fourth. with who do a romance dinner the class restaurant or a nice gift of the classics. he shook we also own heart shaped chocolates works really well this year. i ththink it's greati love valentine's day. comes only it's an occasion to think about your sweetheart why not get as your local club's phone someone off the land a meal valentine's day is a big day for flower shops we mainly sell red roses a symbol of love it's good for us flores but customers to missile it pull the show was. nothing says i love you like a rose but flores recommend sticking to red or pink in any event avoid yellow as it's a symbol of the trail you can always go. for white though the symbol of friendship. trends are changing and so is valid. day thehese days many people celebrate the festival of love with their friends or even their favorite pets. phil hahaslam and i repororting a washing it live from paris quick reminder of ththe mind

stories. hey in frarance lolookx tatape a key of president mac ot of the race to be a matter of power. private lives apart again in n the spotlight in n mc clones policy trouble. whl officials in. the spread of cologne of. and china's. to it. the travail of one thousand seven hundred health workers a four six. right this time both of you quick novelist ask the so i. terror and- the case the case in the e wake of turkey's down after fed to fuel. about the device in the country. time now for our bususiness roundup was c coast during the high category off w with aa big commitment from facebook that's right ceo mark zuckerberg says he understands the company may have to pay more in taxes. according to his speech he said to give saturday at the munich security conference. also pledges firm support behind an ongoing effort to rewrite global tax rules currently overseen by the oecd. according toto an excerprpt of that talk o facebook boss expected to say

quote.e. we want the- onlnly ciy processes exceeds that we have a stable and reliablee system going forward. and we accept thatat may mean we have to pay more tax and paid i in different placaces under a new framework. of course comes amid growing criticism that tech firms a are not paying their fair share specially in the european union. frustrations that soccer berg says he understands according to the speech. take a look now i fridaday's. . i a mix bag on wall strtreet to end the week. peersrs over t the corona virus continuing to nag at investors there turn of u. s. markets. dow jones down around a tenth of a percent. s. and p. and the tech heavy nasdaq meanwhile both up around fifty percent. meanwhile some slight losses on the major european indices if it's a closing out friday down around six tenths of percent. the dax just around back even while the cat count shed around for ten to present. renault shares down nine tenths of percent after the automaker. announced its first net annual loss in a decade. meanwhile one

of the world's oldest banks is changing its name. two hundred and ninety three years after its founding the royal bank o of scotland is becoming nat west. taking on the name of its largest brand. team is part of an overhaul to improve the firm's image which took a big can a financialal crisis after a b. s. was saved by government bailout. blender also says it stepping up efforts to fight climate change. co promising to phase out call financing by twenty thirty take lessons. say what we want to do is be positive helping the u. k. transition to a low carbon economy. we have very strong policies in terms of our landing today seventy point 3% of our balance sheet. is identicall based industries- and what we willll do isis we set a time we will with tool that landing but what we want to do is work with our customers on transition plans. next up to the north of france where workers are reacting to reports of rail giant aus dem preparing to buy up the real division o of canadian firmm bomberr day. together thehe firm's implyly or three thousandnd people in the region and are said to be in

court advance talks of a potential deal. alison started explains why and what it could mean. it's a purchase e that coululd make al storm t the wors clear number two in railway equipment. the french train maker is in talks to buy the rail division of canadian manufacturer bombard the eight. employees at this factory in northern france have mixed feelings about a potential buyout. surface and dusty it's easy to buy grgroup or rail division but thenn what happens. and it's not just us and don't forget we also work with some contractors is triple. also conditions here from. usually know the bone bar jay has been having financial problems. so i think having alstom support could make things easier if you call them stormo support like- metro- but to priscilla. combined two companies and over three people in for and unions for that a merger would end up be to law of job then barty a

its is over eight billion euro in debt after invest huge sums develop new airplanes the company has been offloading its assets earlier this week from rda sold its stake in eight to twenty p pnes to aiairbus and te quebec government and now i'll stop is reportedly offering some seven billion euros for its rail division. let the hope for the benefit for alice to mister former real industry giant which would generate about fifteen billion euro and which would allow them to share the costs of research and development and commercialization. and to keep up with their rivals. our another menu. have been to counter competition from chinese industry leader c. r. r. c. core. ouster marty tried to join forces with germany's siemens but the e. u. blocked the merger last year over anti trust concerns. and finally friday course a big day for florists but they're not the only ones making an extra buck this valentine's day. according to master card global spending on gives a shot up 17% between february eleventh and february fourteenth of last three years.

that includes perches on things like hotels and restaurants as well as flflowers and jury. spendingng jump as big even bigger here i in france increasing by some fifty percent. chris online they historically big really anglophone world certainly the us and uk but- early catching on here lisa. to my card. because of some thank you very much call that will you. from time now for me to watch withth and james and the french. talking about compound with american maybe that talk about a pet schoolol s six got. at off the frfront they have been talking this one or day bridgman people. yes absolutely it is an interesting one because- sent me in the united kingdom and the united states. sex scandals all huge but here in france traditionally levy plea of a private life. is fiercely protective but prevention i agree that. it was emmanuel michael's choice to be the next at harris man. i he's hot to stand down off to images of him. pleasuring himself and what i posted online yesterday at he has basically no really apologize for this year even

confessed. that yes- confirmed rather that it was definitely him in those images. no apologies just anger radio what he called ignoble attacks. and he says this is the culmination of months of defamation. at death threats even so he's not standing down shame but he says he's doing it to protect his family. and he was very much seen as very close to a manual mackerel. i one of the fastest list to do that that party to join a manual michael when he formed his new policy. at so he has made himself. very much a talking point not just here in france but around the world sex sells and everyone's reporting on this one. at witut questionon and suddenly everyone's talking about it online lots of people joking about it. at big reforms under way says this past them and that they've added the word news to his- file that as he's into whatever building that is. that this is a note to the point that benjamin griva used to actually work for dominique strauss kahn- sanford across. him hit he of course his political rick. ended by a sex

scandal. and it just says that if. i can help you. with pleasure. now looks a french bullet. have been. out because the- all. private life on upset power for polish and for is something that is accurate or the one but had a got it fast joblo she is my outlook center at he says it's time we- regular the torrents of my that koresh. networks freed of expression must stop at the boundaries of life is quite funny really because can't leave stories about freedom of expression of speech is power but no if it's going to be out any of the- sexual into. i'm this is aber into to says the when you you private life to run private acts accord. and it's a very good because these image was set via thing they will face the video. so we is

the prime life and when we know michael could be hacked like could be heard on the line. it is an interesting question one that i think a lot of people be asking questions about this a gentleman is a republican politician no big fan of the money will knock on the ready to write to the defense of benchmark revoked only in the broadest sense because he says this is a new level of americanize ation of physical life. and he talks about destroying an individual and his family to prevent him from winning is despicable he says his private life only concerns him interesting take on it he does. not grieve and have a wife and three children but we'll talk about them a little bit more in a moment interestingly the french media hype it would appear played along with this idea that. private life is not to be to be. toyed with in the press and media part is an investigative news site they mess with the person you have these images on tuesday and decided not to run it they said it was simply revenge porn. and said they

would not run it. however today it's a to. that their entire home iss. by stories of this now i'm sure that would say this isn't happening the into a good about it exactly i took my it until the- else's. the dash was. i've been course they say that he's down a the jenny story and of course up to the right that talk about. there are of course to based on the same the book. i would walk mr grief male might down for. by second about the fact that you know this of this leaked to the end of obviously. people looking in who has done that and why. yes absolute innocent. interesting this one if i. a russian on. living in x. here in front been hit the three. his name is p. top of lens. rather an arrest looking to. at this is what she pro for that was done him back twenty. because is some that gets talked about a lot he does we x. political protests and in the headline here they talk about him being. clean you out which can mean either way yes exactly. and it could mean

courageous brave- less- will collect really boldly and i'm one of the things that he's most famous for. is having actually nailed his *-*- see the couples of red square statement yes and he's also chopped off part of his ear in the past usually to protest- lot of it to settle the police station or the like. i'm not he is a very controversial character no exaggeration there too long talking about the fact that he's been imprisoned in both countries russia and france. he's accused of sexual assault in russia which he says was politically motivated. i'm and he's also wanted here in france right now because they think he may have been involved in a stopping back in december of two people. i am and it's easy to write off what he's done brady when you look at how controversial he is in a lot of people think he is just plain crazy. and but what he has said is that he was motivated. not by some kind of russian conspiracy but by hypocrisy he cited in particular this article in parry match which came out in april. last year

benjamin green. vote with his wife julia. in on the headline. says his two loves. at and there she is. having pregnant with. that child. and he says basically that. also pull. it is a to hipaa. to play the- of the for. man to try win by. he is low. to the la. and what he has as well is that there more to come. i he says. grew that is. the fact. they may. there will be a few. friends colleges. squirming out that right now one final point to remember their revenge porn is illegal hit in france. so yet to appeal. have lenski could risk two years in prison or sixty thousand euro fine. i think on all fronts to be continues and the james thank you very much that was b. u. what show watching live from paparisill take. a very y short break. off which. i'll be back in the headlines

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