♪ >> at least 11 people killed in a series of attacks in the southern philippines. militants linked to the islamic state group are thought to be behind the blast. the men who 51 muslims in new zealand lastst year in court for sentencing. lawyers say the 29-year-old could be the first person there to be jailed for life without parole. and u.s. secretary of state mike

pompeo in israel in his first leg of a middle east tour. the latest from jerusalem coming up. i am in paris. thank you for joining us on france 24. let's start with a developing story out of the philippines. at least 11 soldiers and civilians were killed in an attack. another former people were hurt. so islamic -- 40 people were hurt. suspected islamic militants were our -- our suspected of setting off bombs there. what more do we know about what happened there today? place inell this took the southern philippines. sulu is a stronghold of an islamic extreremist group.

they have conducted some terrible bombings t there in the papast and it t looks like theye done it again today.y. there was a double bombing in the middle of town. it was market day. large crowds around, and aims at some soldiers who were on patrol there. >> the southf the philippines has seen decades of muslim separatist unrest. have we seen anything asioiolent as this so far? >> >> well, this does have the iny echoes of an attack hollow last t year when a husbsd and wife from indonesia blew themselves up in an attack on the cathedral. the same technique was used there. people were drawn to the scene, and then a second bombing. that group -- that couple was saidid to be associatedd as wel. sadly, it is not the first time they've witnessed this sort of carnage. >> >> thank youou for that.

next, the sentencing hearing for the white supremacist two killed 51 muslilims at a mosque in new zealand last year is now underway. some family membmbers and victis describe their loss and pain face-to-face with a young man who carried out the worst terrorist attack in new zealand's history. >> hands clelenched tightly in support ofof one another -- famy members of the victims of the christchchurch attttacks filileo a highly-guguarded wewellington court. for many it was the first time they could confront the man who killed their loved ones on march 15, last year. talked try to imagine how my beloved felt at the moment of the attack -- how he faced the shooter with his chest.

varyiying a loved one i is heartbrereaking, but h how about burying a one-of-a-kind that is my son? heart-wrenching testimonies that were accompanied by fortitude. one victims saidid his community and his faith was stronger than ever. >> we are more united. >> in shackles as hehe was led into the sentetencing hearingnge 29-y-year-old brenton tarran had alalready pleaded guilty to 51 counts of murder in march. prosecutors outlined a payment -- premeditated terrorist attacks. they say he undulated thousands of rounds of ammunition, flew a drone for reconnaissance, mapped layouts s the mosqsques. he planned to burn them and attack it.. --and attack a third.

prosecutors are considering revoking the possibly of parole, a first in new zealand. nationalican convention is kicking off today. campaign,to the kellyanne conway says she is leaving g the administration at the end of the month. conway says she now wants to focus on her family, as brian quinn explains. mediaald trump's prizefighter stepping out of the ring. senior white house counselor kellyanne conway has announced she is leaving her post at the end of august to focus on her family, promising her four children less drama, more mama. conway has been at the trump white house sincnce day one, coming -- bebecoming the highest-ranking woman. callahan: a lot of us are sick and tired of america coming last. -- apension and combative

penchant for combative and often misleading interactions with the u.s. press corps earned her the admiration. she: the term "alternative facts" and a longtime republican pollster, her stint as the campaign manager made her the first woman ever to lead a successful presidential bid. her husband, george,, prominent conservative lawyer, quickly became one of trump's foremost critics on the right. on sunday he announced he would step back from his role in a project aimed at convincing conservatives to vote against trumpian november. the withdrawal from the political limelight comes as their 15-year-old daughter tweeted her mother's job b ruind her life and she would be seeking emancipation. kellyanne conway is still set to

address the republican national convention on wednesday night. >> u.s. president donald trump has authorized a new emergency and whilefor covid-19 health experts are saying the use of convalescent plasma needs more study, the president is calling it a breakthrough. president trump: this is a powerful therapy that transfuse is very a very strong antibiotics from the blood of recovered patients to help treat current that on a infection. it is at an incredible rate of success. today's ruling will dramatically expand the treatment. >> it makes it easier for patients to o obtain t the treatment, but it does not have full approval from the government healthwatch dog, the fda. mike pompeo is in israel for the first leg of his middle east tour. he is trying to drum up momentum on the trump's administration arab-israeli push for peace.

that comes after the historic agreement to establish the medic ties between israel and the united arab emirates in exchange for israel freezing parts of the occupied west bank -- a deal that was brokered by washington. >> i am very hopeful we will see other arab nations join in this -- the opportunity to work alongside, and recognize the state of israel will not only increase middle east ability, but improve the lives of people in their own countries as well. >> >> we have been covering the story from jerusalem. the trump administration has been trying to sell this deal between israel and the uae as something that is historic, almost having a thrhree lap, if you like. is it really that historic -- a victory lap, if you like. is it really that historic? >> it is historic in the sense that it has s been on the blble. there e had been a long standing

relationship betweween israel ad thee uaeae but always s under te table. some -- all of that happened, not officially. now itit is ofofcial. one israeaeli analystst said its like in the e old days when the mistress became the wife. it is out t in the opepen. they are hoping otheher nations wiwill follow suit.. other candidates, susuydam, and baback to the uae. [indiscecernible] some u united arab emirates are seen interviews on isrsraeli tv. we have seen diffeferent -- evey nighght. there is excitement aboutut the prospects of benenicial opening

up sthat ordiny people can go to abu dhabi. >> a lot of positivity, since become but there is one issue they had to tacklkle heaead-on a press conference not long ago and ththat is the sale of fightr jejets. >> that is right. israel -- we have a situation here where israel's prime landter said this was not for peace, but peace for peace. , the u.s. willl likely g g jets. as people aree saying, a arms fr peace, and thahat may not be ba, the e benjamin netanyahu s saidt is not part of the deal.. when wewe heard donald t trump say it isis partf .he deal

so, todaday we heard f from mike popompeo, and he said it could e part of the deal -- we might consider s selling them partlylo defend t them againstran, and papartly because w we know whate military.ain isrsrael's there will be an advantage to israel. they will sell the more equipment. sometething both had to tackle at this press conference recently. >> what else came out t of the press conference and these talks today in jerusalem? think they were d dancing around thehe f-35 issueue, whics discussesed. i think ththey were alalso tryio see which other natations, which otr pepeople they could bring

into the fold.d. i thinkk suydam is high on the list. -- suydam is high on the list. i is high on ththe list. pompmpeo is goining there today. -- it is high on the list. bahrain is anothther country thy are visiting. certainly, f for donald trump, o is facacing reelelection, he was some foreign policy wins on his scoreboard. >> at sulli. thank you. also in israel, thousands of people went on strike sunday to denounce sexual violence against women. those protests are coming after the shocking alleged gang grip of a 16-year-old girl. it has shaken the country with more and more people calling for

justice. fraser jackson has this. fraser: they came in thousands to denounce sexual violence against women. they alleged gang great of a 16-y-year-old girl has shocked e country and galvanize protesters who are demanding justice, and also a deeper change in attitudes towards rape. >> we are expecting law authorities to take action and give the proper punishment, and look for justice in the system. >> we have to make a change, whether it is basic education, influences at home, violence in general in our community, voicese against women -- have to o be heard and change hs to be made. >> it was just him -- - this hotetel the teenage girl was allegedly gang grant. as many as 30 men are said to hahave lined up to abuse the 16 year old girl, although police

debate the number. authorities continue their investigation into the act prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called a crime against humanity. for the victim, the torment is ongoing. persononal details have been circulated on soulless -- osha media, as has a video taken during the attack -- on social media, as has a video taken during the attack. an israeli determinist groups as 260 women are ripped in israel every single day -- rate in israel -- raped in israel every singlele day. over 90% of the cases are close without indictment. q stay w with us o on france 24. i will be back in 15 minutes with more headlines.

>> hello, and welcome to the france 24 interview. my guest is a world-famous environmental activist from india. she is a lord of the alternative novel prize in 1993, the author of numerous books. her latest is called "oneness versus 1%." thank you for being on the phone. i want to begin early on. you were not supposed toto be an activist. you were a physicist, and then earlyme across in the 1990 -- early 1970's, a movement. >> i was trained to be in establishment, -- nuclear establishment, but my sister will be up to the hazards

of nuclear. i was going to canada a to do a before i went i wanted favorite for of my a spat i have grown up in the himalayan forest. the forest -- some of my favorite himalayan forests. i have grown up in the himalayan forest. in my heart i said i would come back and be a volunteer for this movement. women came out and said we're going to have the trees. you cannot cut the trees because from the trees, or water. the trees prevent floods and droughts and they also give us everything we need. we will be under south trees. the name means to hug, and i learned my lessons of ecological activism from the women of himalaya who are never been to school but knew everything about

psychology, biodiversity. taught forests are not timber mines, and a lot might understanding that nature is the basis of economy came from my engagement and my respect for women's indigenous knowledge. it totally turned my own head physicsown because others don't, and i realized everyone has knowledge and you must respect it. engaged ine really this pity you have been an opponent of big multinational corporations, especially monsanto to name just one because of what you described as nefarious influence on agriculture -- learn -- there are a number of examples. there was bt cotton in india, especially. you said this is not a matter of

helping farmers grow their land, but actually making them dependent on those big corporations. the entry of corporations into agriculture is wrong because they only bring voices and most of them have roots in hitler's germany in making guesses. >> but that was not their aim. vandana: no, their aim was to make chemicals to kill people and death of the worst they said why should we start making these chemicals -- they will kill pests, fertilizer and fertilizers were made in the same factories that made explosions and ammunitions for hitler's germany. >> but it is not the same goal. vandana: the company is the same and the process is the same. the rhetoric might change, but it does not change.

i did a book on the revolution because the land was destroyed and when monsanto came in as a result of globalization come because until the 1990's, 90% of the seed was in farmers hands and the risk came from private sectors, research institutions. monsanto came illegally, did not take any approval, with the promise that they would increase farmers income and have this magical technology to control pests. farmers are in debt. farmers are committing suicide. -- the ararea has been ruined. pollinators are gone. the grououndwater is gone. -- i is nothing about the saved seeds pit we worked on the hand weaving of the organic cotton. the economy in the villages we work have jumped tenfold because

the wealth is staying in the village rather than being siphoned out as monsanto profit and i read a new study that says because we have saved seeds we brought local seeds that can be saved back into the ecoconomy. monsanto has lost 11 million. get to your latest book because you widen, i would say, not only on monsanto and -- likes, but also others you attack what you describe as the billionaire dictators, especially one man, i should say, bill gates, who you describe as christopher columbus -- of modernng you times, and that is not a compliment, whose mission is to import genetically modified organisms and digital dictatorship to small firms around the world. bill gates who has donated

billions to improve public health and poor countries and so on -- you are saying, essentially, he is a dictator, and he is there not to help, but to make people poorer, more dependent. vandana: bill l gates is actualy continuingng the work of monsano because monsanto had so many movevements. pours money into africa for feeding the poor in africa and preventing famine, what is he doing -- pushing the green n revolution, pushing patterns -- he thinks it is a good thing and he might be wrong -- that is not the same thing. vandana: there is enough evevidence of what he does -- there are letters from him from farmers of africa, governors of africa that say this is not the way to go. gates is trying very hard

to shift the issue now to digital. hehe just took a map and said my invention -- you don't create a seed. seed is self-organize, self-making. just by making a map -- you have no idea what the seed does. this is something he is pushing very, very hard. hasve talked about how he pirated seeds we have saved that tolerates floods. this biopiracy is a bit like columbus turned, the supposedly discovered america when he basically went as a parent. why do i call in today's columbus -- because he is carving out new colonies. >> you say he has a strategy -- a nefarious strategy, which you

describe as cilantro--- capitalism. you are not saying he is using the wrong methods. he is pursuing the wrong goal with self-interest. you also attack mark zuckerberg, the founder of facebook, saying they are all linked together -- it wreaks a bit of conspiracy theory, doesn't it? vandana: my book is based on the new evidence that is coming up. all you have to see is the ownership and i have data on this common ownership. we stopped mark zuckerberg from trying to get into indian agriculture. mobilization of people t that believe in the opn internet -- >> what did he want to do? vandana: facebook, they mine the data from the farmers, and right now all over the world there are new debates and privacy issues, data mining, a new form of capitalism, which is

surveillance capitalism where you have turned human beings into raw material. bill gates does both -- he takes living resources, minds it into data, and wants ownership, along with his friends, and mark es your data and behaviors and turns it into the raw material of the corporate whichfor selling things is why strange advertisements pop up after you send a message to your friend, and manipulating elections. i have a chapter on the hijack of democracy -- you have an update on what -- on facebook selling data to cambridge analytical. this is a major threat to democracy. >> so this is why you're calling them done in her dictators because -- calling them billionaire dictators because they're not helping democracy. isn't this too much? vandana: i have grown up in an india that was posed

-independence. i grow -- i have grown up in an india that had absolutely no corporations that i have grown up in an india where democracy works. digitale when i see transactions and criminalization of cash between poor people, i see this as a dictatorship -- a digital dictatorship. whenen i watch, and assisting in you, but in africa and other parts of the world, now that we have the data that is showing have morees nutrition, produce more food, local biodiversity is the way to feed the world in spite of the evidence in the united nations, in every agency -- bill gates is still importing and forcing gmo 's, which is a failed enterprise. he is taking what is failed and

rejected by governments. golden rice for solving the problem of blindness. he finances it. he is taking failed projects with the wrong thinking that life is like a word program then -- that can be chopped, cut, and pasted what it is an amazing self organization and writing your own poetry -- that is what life does. he is ignoring this new knowledge that science is giving us an imposing a phase, technology, with a huge cost to the planet ononly so there e cae monopolies. , you have shiva strong views a and we are happy you are able t to share them wih us. thank you very much for watching this interview here on france 24.