twenty four .com. welcome back to the fronts twenty four newsroom the c clocks all striking ten pm here in paris these are the latest world headlines. heyy rich remembers those who died and those who've been affected on the one month anniversary of the city's chemical explosions. bells ring from churches and mosqueses anda minute's silence is observed as rescue and cleanup efforts continue. france is a long way from seeing the back of code is nineteen the latest figures from the health ministry show thatat nearly n nine thousand nw cases have been confirmed. that's a record daily highs since the virus first appeared.

it was once considered one of the most livable cities in the u. s. portland oregon has now been rocked by one h hundred consecutive nights of unrest. anger bills nationwide the racial discrimination. these brutality. it's s been a mixed day of remembrance and hope for the people of lebanon the country has been markingg the one momonth anniversary of the chemical blastss which devastated large parts of beirut leaving scores dead and thousands more injured or homeless but amid those vigils residents of warm pockets of the capital have been waiting with bated breath to find out if the pulse detetected amid the rubble there is a survivor in

cat. a. thon day reports. as people when silence. is from mosques and church bells rang out across the roots. to commemorate victims of the explosions that toll through this ports. leaving someone a hundred and ninety people dead. families firefighters army officials and religious figures gathered. miles away rescue workers still cling onn to o the hohope of findingng survivors sk in the rubble. the softer sensor device detected a heart beat on the debris of this collapse building. it is bad. enough but i think people. think that represents then they will not directly to c. on. the issue more the listen to pharmaceutical. applicants you might be at a later and- they got. abbas is still not. she

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infections.. since the pandemic appeared nearly nine thousand new cases have been registered and on average ten infected people a currently infecting thirteen others with transmission said to be mainly among young adults. the new school term has already been short lived to say the least just days after classes resumed following the summer break the french education minister said the twenty two schools have been closed on the mainland. and in overseas territoriries morose sick false reports. it's only just re opened in this primary school in southern france is already c closed agai. the seventy students that go head didn't even have much time to get to know the full teachers that work here. the school was closed after a child in nursery tested positive for david nineteen well so i think we'll deal with it. when i was well during lockdowns in malls. the school enough say also closed on friday after a municipal employee working in

the canteen tested positive for the virus. parents are waiting for further information about the risk posed to the children. for the time being what we know is that municipal employees who came into contact with the infected person are going to be tested what we don't know is if our children came into contact with that person and whether they will need to be tested. secondary schools have also been affected despite the implementation of compulsory mask wearing and social distancing. the school in southwestern france which is two hundred and twenty four students has also been shot since friday morning a member of staff has been infected are you still contacted us on the fifth day off to school restarted he came into contact with almost all his colleagues in the establishment. of a recording contract with the regional health agency and the prefecture which decided to close the school to prevent the situation from developing. the city florida all staff members here are going to be tested. private nineteen is disrupting the start of the school year

throughout france. s. basis by health and education authorities distortion food tester carried out and then measures put in place of the- most the time if there are more than three or four cases then the school will be closed tone from a childreren s. which- betweeeen one hundred and one hundred and twenty classes were cancnceled on friday. well tweny two schools have been entirely closed in metropolitan france i'm not a union. the big. pleased in the united states has come out to say that it endorses president trump's bid for re election this autumn boosting his law and order message that he's been hitting home recently. civil unrest continues to grip the country following s several incidents of police brutality. against the black community. on thursday evening a black lives. matter supporters suspected a fait. shooting a right wing. cheering demonstrations in portland oregon was shot dead by police.

selina sykes tells us more. it's the latest developments as tensions continue to escalate in portland's- sounds while the man suspected of fatally shooting a right wing activiviss during protests last week has been shot dead in a confrontation with police. the information we have at this time is that the subject was armed- there was shots were fired into the vehicle. and the subject fledd from the vehicle- it which time there was additional shots were firedd. michael ryan a regular pulses in b black lives matter protests was suspected of shooting iron danielson when donald trump supporters clashed with antnti racism demonstrators o on sasaturday nights. in an interview with vice newews befoe his deathh the father of two sasaid he felt hisis actions wee completely justified. i fefelt that myy life and- other people around these lives were in dadanger. and i felt like i hadd

no choice but to do what i did. black lives matter protests have been taking place every night's important since the killing of george floyd in maine. he's deaf also triggered protests against police brutality across the united states the latest flashpoint is the fatal police shooting of eighteen year old the on k. for us in washington since new body camera rules came into place the footage has been made public. well for more we can have now to washington dc and speak to david smithth the bureu chief for the guardian newspaper that the david with this latest fatal shooting of a d. on k. in the capital earlier this week. this whole question of police violence and racial discrimination is now very much bebeen broughtht to the front dr of the political class. that's right some here in washington dc it's now- very much a pressing issue the so called

for the politicians to. ignore all of this particular case- an eighteen year old- to haveve a gun hisis hand when he was shot. by police officer that the police are found got wind of this incident because of a- hello to on six media and think. the seeds. the have some really a product footage. i think believe that. that said intel as you welcome bye think it self some kind of vindicacates all the times are possible old from was asked if them during visit to with is week. didn't release to an opinion but the officer that were in favor suddenly does some point to wide array. he said right here at near y. house but any burning across the entire. all the air m. the killing of a for and in many last minute eight

nights it well it's been to be the pro me in american. as a but lies master mall. as swept acacross the country. i know i think we're going to see that along with current of pen really it's one of the defining issue of this i. prpresence election many feeling after four hundred years of sleigh inside it is time to come semi because injustice had all. okay david smith the appear chief the guard's newspaper in wash dc that's all we have time for thank you very much. next in nato so general has that any use of chemical weapons is a quotote unacceptable breach of international norms and rules. the alliance has agreed that russia must answer serious questions about the poisoning of the kremlin critic alexey in the- was still being treated by doctors in germany. tests rossa teams that missed a move was poisoned with the nerve agent

not choke. jen's stoltenbergrg has called the incident an attack on fundamental. democratic rights. does for this it must be accountable and brought to justice. we also call on russia to provide the complete disclosure of the norwich okay program to the opcw. time and again we have seen the position it is and critics of the russian. attack under license threatened some have even been killed. so this is not just an attack on an individual but on fundamental democratic rights. i did this a serious breach of international law which d dands. an international response. wewe on some of africa pressing recent issues were brought to the front steps of the french president's residence this

friday emmanuel maccoll has been meeting with his only florian counterparts asselin weta that meeting came just days after a seventy eight year old one zero was officially nominated by his party and its candidates in this october's election. the two leaders hunt lunch together with the political situation in only ththree coast on their agegendas well as t the crisis in mali following last monthth's millel. tree to. with more we can bring douglas gates a professor of. science i the- graduates here in paris he's also written extensively on african affairs in the past thank you for being with us once again here- on france twenty four. now the french president has made no. public a declaration about what surrounds decision to stand for re election in ivory coast but my call has long been cooling for africaca's old gods t to gie wayy to o some. form of new blod what do you make of the french

leader's silence on this issue. all we know in december he had congratulated publicly congratulated alassane ouattara for stepping down and for not running for a third mandate so it's clear that his position is that he's against it. however a france it has some in tangle men's with the regime. so it's not just that ivory coast is the major trading partner france in the in the frame shop.. but france also has a permanent military base w with nine hundred troops stationed inin ivory c coast that i it uso launch operations. in the war on terror and also from background personally the ivory coast would be a pillar of france's efforts to change the cfa franc. thank something called the echo. and s so m malm finds himself with a lot of

other fish to fry. and it looks like he's going to remain silent for the hollow in alexion or reelecection. of alassane ouattara. the opposition in three is the key in my michael x. kind stand this and- opposition is even here in paris like kelam sorrow but i must say- when we speak of the opposition there are so many older actors center s stil. dangling around i mean the bibible has gone down since he was released from the international criminal court he's not allowed to run but he's a political force henri konan bedieie e eight. i donon'w what the vieiewers u understandt this is the man with the whole crisis started windows were born he died in recording in baby a. made himself president and then c came the so war. afterwards andnd he's running so the office might not be happy but there's failed to be a

transfusion of blood to a new generation. in some ways what we're seeing are the flowers of the- tate stay there the interim does seem to resolve. the fundamental underlying issusues. douglas. of course. here in paris machine have been the rather tense c. in. . s. ary coast eight try t to be array. actorr i in the crew and in the new mill regime and its co that if i this on tara going to run for cost. third mandate he's an old to give call to less. to quote on the other cooper with france a and with ivory will be necessary for the military junta to successfully fight against the jihadists so expect more of the discussions strategic discussions w with alassane ouattara on- the

malian crisis. o okay douglas yates thanks for being withh us. once again here on france twtwenty fourr. okay it't's ti w for businessss newsoror that i'm joined here in the city by youor cut why es and you cutut the u. s. jobs market is showing. another sign of recovery from the carpet a nineteen crisis on the u.. s. unemployment rate dropped t to eight point 4% in auaugust as the economy added oe point four million jobs. it's a significant improvement from july when the jobless rate was still above 10% but the oldest figures are partly thanks to a surge in temporary government high is that for the twenty twenty senses. and the pace of hiring has slowed down the gap in unemployment rates between whites and african americans why didn't for a fourth straight month. presidedential candidatee as joe. biden criticized the administration. but i always think about the people walk through the doors here. working people. white black brown latino. what are

they doing today okay. that's always risky thinking about his jet loads this latest jobss report. but the report. reinforces the worst. fears and painful truths. the economic inequities that began before the downturn have only w worsend under this failed d presidency. but thehe new j jobs figuree dit stop a market selloff led by a plunge in the tech sector we'll later trading but still closed the week under pressure the dow dropped about half a percent and the tech heavy nasdaq finished the day down all. one point 3% construction work on britain's high speed two raill lilink has begun more than a dedecade aft i it was firsrst proposed. ages to isis the biggest infrararucture project in europe and aims to signgnificanantly reducee jououy time and creatate tenens of thousasands of jobs. but the p n has beenen heidi culture. both o didisk. costss and pototential impacts on the environment.

themselves and takes a closer look. the firm shovels hit the ground for holly speaking to. british prime minister boris johnson came to survey with the country's hugely controversial new railway line will run three. allllowing he says is necessary. to reduce its carbon footprint. right transcriptomic to w which he is at the heart of the build back better go back faster and build that green recovery because don't forget that h. as to what other people said unaided garments this- had the points but- h. as to. is going to be a significantly greenough way to travel. the supporters of hst the benefits are clelear in the past two decades the number of journeys made by training in britain has nearly doubled. meaning the existing network is o overcrowdd and you high speed network will shrink journey times between major cities. and free up space.

on local services. but opponents the prone on water price tag means it should be a fun along ago. originate was only to call tax spent four your- now calls balloon to one twenty billion. nicely because of the complexity of the project. pages to remove so run through some of england's most picturesque landscapes. and envivironmentalists horrified to learn that a woodland with to be found to make way for the. nine these. protests. right the value of this flag the chance to is the biggest thing of the ray in since the vic a- on the phone facing birmingham to is due to be finished by twenty thirty one often which are for the nine years of work his plans extending the linine to in switztzerland another mammoth rarailway project has just been completed. the ceneri base

tunnel the final segment of a new rail link through the alps comes after two other based on those in two thousand and seven and two thousand and sixteen. the aim is to ease the flow of freieight from t the dutch portf rotttterdam on thehe north sea o the county imports of general on t t mediterraranean. the new fifty kilometer long tunnel will also cut travel time for passengers crossing the alps thinking zurich and milan in just three hours. it will fully at the site is in december. oil majorsrs hotel and comicic adventure p pay s site have officially launched a p project to make electric car batteries together. the new joint venture or to move in cells company plans to build two giant factories running france and another in germany. initially the partners will each own a 50% stake in the company. plans for the five billion euro project the fast announced in january. with one point three billion euros of public funding from the french and german governments. the pilot line for lithium ion cells is expected

to be operational by the second half of next year. and that's it. okay why t thank you very much. okay it's time n now for another look a at wh m making wy ononhe web o on so media me wath emerdd m maxwell an emerald first of all you're looking at reaction to o an article published in the atlantic magazine alleging that donald trump called american sololdiers killed in combat during worldd war one q quotes loses in secons yes that's right it's- a devastating critique of the us president- makes it make a number of claims including that he refused the plan visit on the food in world war one soldiers at the american cemetery in paris in twenty eighteen- because he didn't want his head to be disabled. and a book with the rain and he's quoted as saying why should i get that symmetry it's filled with leases- it's also claimed he- called the late senator john mccain a loser and also the military parade exclude exclude winded veterans- because nobody wants

to see a piece- and this is the for jeffrey goldberg he wrote the article he's also the editor of the other ten chief chief of the atlantic- he quit several anonymous sources- with. quite first hand knowledge of the discussion that dayay- and the new york times picks up on this- on this they've they've they've done the investigation i'm as have several eight a. p. and- washington post an incorporated- i love the sources- and they say the new york times as people for media say trump is on school andnd ththose who served in vietetnams beining too dumb to haveve gottn out of it. as he did for a diagnosis of boeing's buzz yes he avoided a mitch dropped five times during the vietnam war-- fox news there has criticized the use of anonymous sources- and since the just thing it was a fabricated despite these of a corporations- it's- it's more bad news for trump but it's- it's always you know the first time and it doesn't really seem

to have moved to his court very much well there. this time and thought they looked a lot of people are commenting pointing out that a lot of these claims on. you for instance this. journalists pointed out that trump is cool john mccain using public before this is a interview a few. back i. trump has. well he's come out. the anger denied the claims is. the timing is picking for him to months before election. but in your time points out he was reading counting on the us the- of the minute. as for his reelection campaign is relaxed and it's prompt quite a lot of neck. reactionon from us militay man. like this withth. major gen he- a person video asking how anyone. trump so you so trump is as claimed it's if it's fake new on. u. p. three. his as co.

advice as eight. a former aide here's he was with him the day one of the visits i'm not this was. percent but a lot of you left wonderiring why try hasn't threatened sue the- for. libel because his you move i. so yeah we the american military might is. the minute she times had actually pulled. as a minute maid to people and of. the for the seseat off weaving out. and shows that a it's a for trump she for into thought seven but- and- job. was putting up one per. so this is actually could this all could be worrying for trump for his part by dan how oversee weighed. with the- i really see the stay. saying if the rubber. are true the they i get another marker of how. press trump and i. about the role that the president of the united states. remains to be seen whether how much that is how on the lecture. okay finally from watch disney. life i'm- of me. ca out today on its

online. streaming platform disney plus but it's- s somethig that's attracting. controversy yes it and facts are cool to be. the have been re ignite which type program a after leading a- to they yeah. actually it cool started a year ago. i've comment common that the start of this of milan the actress who puts how she chinese and i name is do you you face. she voiced support for police hong kong on try social media web at search so media. wavered it's in chinese i also. on police can beat me now and then other than a- what shame for kong. so why it's high h protests is waiting well they are. they are that movement that pro democracy movement is largely inspired by hong kong so that showing support for them- and i seem to have lost the tweets but we have basically. that

tweeting that everyone should boycott three land so that the disney on the chinese government realize that state violence against the people is something that cannot be accepted- but not everyone.e. is on board witith- this boycotts. and he we have- the switch user commenting that. a ptt for people to not boycott the movie because that's already started to asian representation. in western media and if you boycott sets that hollywood is going to see we don't want anymore of it- but another thing that might put off some potential view is t the cost of watching the film. it's twenty nine ninety nine dollars on disney cross coach i'm i'm not the e one timeme price- i i'm nt some top of the six ninety ninee mohlhly s subscription- for disneyey costs andnd that is to watch it in the comfort of your owown home on your sofa. it's quite expensive i rode bikes not no with me watch thank you

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