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twenty four .com. welcome back to the fronts twenty four newsroom the clocks on now striking ten pm here in paris and these all the latest world headlines. following in the historic footsteps laid by the united arab emirates less than a month ago bahrain becomes the second arab countryry to normalizee ties w with israel. palestinian authohoty how's that c cdemns thehe deal. we'll hahave mor frorom there is much less call correspondent in jerusalem. french ministers and health experts makes against the backdrop of the surging coronavirus the prime minister tells the nation that whihile hs governrnment iss doing all it cn to prevent a second nation wide lockdown. france does have to
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learn to live with this virus. the stars and stripes banner flies at half mast as the u. s. remembers those who lost their lives on the nineteenth anniversary of nine eleven. victims relatives gather at the world trade center with presidential hopefuls also. that the specs. the three way telephone conversation has resulted in what the u. s. president is calling an historic breakthrough. the kingdom of bahrain has become the latest arab nation to normalize ties with is mike the deal to last month with the uae today's a court will normalize diplomatic commercial security and other relations between these two countries. the
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palestinians have though already recalled that ambassador to bahrain for consultations after that will thirty condemned the move let's take a quick listen now though to what the u. s. president donald trump has been saying. in the spirit of peace and cooperation bototh leaeaders alo agreed that bahrain will. fully normalizing diplomatic relations with israel. they will exchange embassies and ambassadors begin direct flights between theirir countris and l launch cooperation initiatives across a broad range of sectors including health business technology education. security and agriculture. well for m more wee can bring in all correspondence ever smuggler who is covering the story for us in jerusalem eris today's announcement brings a kind of regional guessing game to an end just what does this deal mean though if israel and for the government that. it's's a huge
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breaktkthrough for israel israel has long wanted recognition i in the arab world-- which has been denied to which- they didn't feel the momentum now is shifting a a it's coming towawards them. israel's prime minister see this is not going to be out of the e country it's also significant that it's bothering. you know that was that guessing game is refeferred to what it be i'm out i i'm goig to be standing by for any significant because it borders saudi arabia you will need t t takeke this step without the consent. and knowledge a and the approval of saudi arabia saudi arabia is a team leader you know saudi arabia is reallyy significant if what we are looking at in the months to come this recognition from saudi. that wouould be huge f f israel and i think t that's why it's so sigignificant and that's why israel's prime minister was tonight describing it. as you twenty six years between theait sesecond peace a agreement with. every twenty y nine days between
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the third would be your. way and should not. right nobody had a make bag re. you news with the- and- both were. a but what is the real been like from the- community and authoritiese. thee palestinians are not happy with this if the momentum i is with israell it't's againsthem they had condemnmned the united arab emirates steel that cool that a statab in the back was a very strong worords. i actually want to be they called on n the way to walk it back they called on the arab league to pressure the way to walk back. and that's partly because from m the palestinian point of view the arab league deal was always we will recognize israeael after it rereaches a peace deal the palestinians t that's now she'ss deadad andnd it's just d did w t consultation with the palestininians so i t think t ty feelel betrayed and- abandoned. andd i can see this momentum is
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not going in this cycle and that's why i have suchh strtrong feelings and that's whwhy they recalled theirir a ambassador to knock the. ball from buffering consultations. okay it was michael all cars there jerusalem thank you for much. moving on nine five four hundred and six new coronavirus cases have been confirmed here in france in the last twenty four hour reporting period that's a drop of four hundred and thirty seven from the figures released the previous day. this new data was released after the g governments and experts put t their heads together the prime minister following the meeting sayss the viruses quote obviously worsening but he'ss sayingg that he's trying to avoid another nation wide lockdown. juncus sticks saves forty two of the one hundred and one political regions are now listed as red zones with authorities in must say but will do and the overseas territory of guadeloupe tolls to present fresh ideas on how to deal with vestiges by monday. the
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currency for those who are infected he's also beenn shortened fromom fourteen to seven days let's up what else juncus texas been saying. result shopbop. on the other of sign to council. to isolate period will be rich to seven days. that is the period during which there is the greatest risk of viral spread. each day. it is essential to strictly respected because isolation period. which will be subject to control. how do you at the console. move more today's announcement from the french government we can speak to dda petite the director of the infection control program at the university of geneva in switzerland thank you very much for being with us here on france twenty four now the french prime minister as we had the- he says that the virus is. worsening but that his government's strategy is not actually changing do you think that juncker sticks should alter his stance. well i think
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that. the that the warrant the virus is worsening is sometethig that is not exactly what well meaning and what shock at stax or even at home and in fact emmanuel mackerel are meeting. in the story. the situationon i. the followingng more people are tested the more you are i'm tom curry actually. mute casey's and distracted g. in falls using a million test a week. is actively looking and looking and searching for the new cases so that's the situation the situation is actually not really worsening. there is a number of admissions in the hospitals that these increasing weekly- there is a number of bats- in the i see you. in the saltwater frost in the region not say. yeah all right all
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right increasing so it's true that the impact of these large a number of key easy is that on wall street among the young populations. is. currently sort of. i touch only to be my learn to so there is a- force. of cj. but the more of is there number of tests that are used in in actually in in trials that explains for these increased order burden of this situation. across texas says that he's desperately trying to avoid a second nation wide lockdown but the heads of the country's scientific council says the government will soon have to take some more tough decisions can another lockdown really be avoioided. wellll currently ihik that they're goioing to say that the country's going to elect down east too much but clearly
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there may be some regions west some sort of l lockdown c coulde expressed as you know y you can speak about a lot done where you stop everything all you can incriminate. strategies. that actually will cheat this two a. under. so as usual what you need to remember he's had a hygiene social distancing. mask use when needed and testing testing and testing in order to help people. who need to be under warranty time requiring taught and this is very importrtant this is the most important part of the strategy maybe y you can reducuce activis or you can stop activities. in the domains where activities are explaining for most of the new cases and these are among. young population that we see the problem with the return of
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activities. like you know. i of fifty keys all. or do tags that still open in some part of cross that need to be actually stopped to control the situation it g goes different ad differs regionon by reregion. i with the winter months fast approaching how do you see this virus involving more generally b. as in front so more widely in europe. well clearly the virus has not changed the virus is endemic. the p populationn we can see that a wrong let's see 10% of the population maybe 223% in the region that will not affect. fifteen even 20% of the population in the region that we have several different. not anybody's certainly against the best virus but the rest of the population let's let's say 8290% of the population has no
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antibodies again the bitterest enemies what we call i it n naie to the v virus it means that the virus. has the freedom to spread among 8290% of the population so we should d expect for the situation to increase we hope small waste will be actually fate we will have to stay small waist but it all depends on. the fact that people will bebe respectful of the c controlled areas that are to be taken and on the test is that on the test and jesse a and catchingng the new cases that is proposed by the government. okay did you put c. in geneva thank you veryry much for bein withth us. i was working on infection rate is for in india than in any of pockets of the way for the health ministry that has reported another record jump in cases with over. ninene six thousand five hundrecoconfirmed jusust thihis friday b but takes the ovevell caseload off a closer to the
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five million mark. but in its latest paper the indian journal ofof medical research sayss that millions of f infections havave gogone undetected. the case taly was perhaps already at six point five million in early may. a deal but and the a amount in the have put together this next reports from india. this muslim cemetery in new delhi was the first to bury those who died from covert nineteen. it's now saturated with bodies. there is no space left to bury the corona virus victims. the symmetry d. must dig in an adjacent vacant lot to deal with the increasing number of death. this whole block of land is full coronavirus because- initially they gave a small pieces of land but with a massive increase in cases we have to expand it. in the last five months we have buried around five hundred and sixty two bodies. but we only have enough space for thirty coronavirus graves before it's full of. limiting the number of
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deaths is the primary goal for the indian government which is now actively reaching out to people. you've tested positive the cause of it you don't need to worry about anything and nothing will happen to you. you have to isolate yourself for two weeks don't go to meet your family. thanks to free more by laborie trees in markets your train stations and bus stops nearly sixty thousand peopople are tested every day in new delhi. setting up a testing van in the markets is good it gives people confidence wincing office getting tested in half an hour we can give people that test results positive or negative. india's only hope of stopping the pandemic is the discovery of vaccine do i i currently in the testing p phase in the c country hosospitals a e only getting one of f the- suspecteted right it's like this we always leave. the heck it is also getting a record and- we- may have more reasons on huge one doctor put eleven thousand
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sisix hundred indians and ready 2% of gdp devoted to health spending. the pandemic has exposed thehe flaws. in the indian medical systems. in other world the s. has been remembering of the most harrowing days in its recent history. this year's nine eleven commemorations have been scaled back the route you to cope at nineteen. president trump and his democrat rival joe biden of buy separately paid their respects in pennsylvania at the flightt ninenety three. natational memol while in new york city ceremonies have been held at manhattan's memorial plaza selina sykes has more. eight forty six am the united states full silence nineteen years after the first planene hit t te twin towerers. even a pandemic would stop families from coming together to remember the loved ones they lost o on n nine elevn steve. the feeling is the same every year. it't's sadnesess. is with deep i regret that we come
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here you know but we come to- to read names in honor of my brother and all those lost on nine eleven this day i'll never forget i was in college when i. my brother. what skills and i just thankful for new york in just the support and just i'll never ever forget this day. president donald trump attended a morning service at the flight ninety three memorial in shanksville the plane crashed after its p passengngers and crw prevented hijackers from reaching the u. s. capitol building. forty brave men and women try am. over terrorism gave their lives in defense of our nation today we pay tributee to their sacrifice and we mourn dedeeply for the nearly three thousand precious and beautiful souls who w were taken from us. on september eleventh two thousand and one. separate ceremonies in shanksville for trump earns them across a
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presidential nominee joe biden in short the white house rivals did not cross falls pennsylvania is a key battleground state in the november election their politics was put aside for the day. price increase of vice president mike pence at the ground zero memorial in new york while both policies refrain from campaigning. junior. okay we can move on now and l look at some o of the dayf business news with coal stangl who is with us now here in the studio cole was talking with one of the world's largest a mining companies with totop executives have resigned over the structure of a prized archaeological sites down under in australia and sir thomas rio tinto ceo is also best down jack says he plans to step down by march at the latest couple other senior figures also slated to leave by the end of the year and it's all over a forty six thousand year old aboriginal cave. something the world's second largest mining company destroyed back in may as it aims to expand in iron ore mine in the area indigenous groups had widely condemned the move itself had company
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shareholders with that criticism apparently growing too large to ignore james wilson has details on what it all means for rio tinto. in the mining sector at large. it's been heralded as a victory for aboriginal rigights. on shareholder activism. three execututives at rio tinto have resigned. after it was revealed the mining giant blew up ancient aboriginal rock shelters. in western australia. in a sector where companies records on climate issues on ethics are increasingly underer the spotlighght. shareholdlds revoltlted. manany were furious that the n news cocould hit the compmpany's l long term prospec. and on friday it was announced the ceo and his two deputies. would d be leaving rio tinto. what happened did you can was wrong and we're determined to ensure that the destruction of heritage sites of such exceptional archaeological and cultural significance never occurs again it's a rio tinto operation. in twenty nineteen
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sales of online or extracted from western australian mines grew to sixty billion euros butt this means the indndtry often cocos into conflic with the lines traditional owners. priceless aboriginal artists being destroyed before a community leaders are calalling for fundamental change. we're also i'm calling for at anytime and currency great your battle that systems. i'm in prprocesses and all state and you need to be aboriginal land- i'm being told a lot of mimining companies i've rac onn everyone t that i talked to wass non aboririginal only not aboboriginal businesss are. n nz aboriginal let- and yu know when the giants- however some tentative signs of change already in june rio tinto's rival php announced it was posing the expansion of the mine in order t to consult with aboriginal leaders. on how best to preserve indigenous. works
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of art in the area. earlier friday eurozone finance ministers in berlin. the emphasis their come to fix state though talk also surfaced over a possible europe wide talk tax on digital services. something france is pushing before the pandemic countries finance ministers says it's even more necessary y today y te lessonss. check out would be a good legal i couldld. the city's economic system please the only disease that. just look atat wht he did to itit keys said windsor ny accidentally called- sure plus he c could issue dececision only g. dot he shshould have access your decision- digitalal support room on his own we could meet the present both don't even some portionss and- yoyou don't grow up schwab whoho don't do that don't be sick considider y young he decided. t would be difficult to the committee. take a look now i frfriday's acts i it was updatee that day on street close out the week. dow jones finishing in positive territory you can see they're up around a half a
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percent shares on the tech heavy nasdaq meanwhile down six tenths of a percent. a mixed bag on the european markets as well as shares on the food see an account here in paris both in positive territory as you can see their- site losses out. on the docks over in frankfurt. among the sectors hardest hit by the ongoing crisis is aviation. or layoffs and pay cuts have become the norm. zurich switzerland airport workers are facing propose weight reductions of fifteen percent. a protestst against it earlier on friday. the company. minding more and more. but the state has given morning the company's. this money so. so you. don't i worked on the- your. the government. and finally the company behind an oil spill off the coast of
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mauritius is hoping to pay for the damage caused japanese firm mitsui osk lines as it's donating the equivalent of seven point six billion euros to fund environmental projects asas well as supupport the locol fishing. burma's president says his company baird quote social responsibility for the accident whwhich took place in late july agagain after a ship struckk a coral reef eventually leaking fuel into a protected wildlife area thomas i was method acting disappear- but the amount of money on the table here talking about seven point six billion euros really speaks to how serious thihis is esther was k. coasting with business. news thank you. very much. well from this we can take a look and what's been making. and grabbing people's attention on the web and on social media that's really not much on the brook i is with us for media watching kathleen there's been backlash. for netflix as c coals to counsel the streaming service reach over. six hundred thousand signatures. yes tom the hash tag cancel netflix has
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been trending on social media. as a- has been going around urging users to cancel their subscription to the streaming service. this backlash over a french film called cuties that. premiered on the website. on september ninth as you can see six hundred thousand people have already signed this petition and the numbers are. multiplying this film actually won a sundance- award thomas. and it is a story of young amy a senegalese girl that came to paris and joined a dance band. and she joins us does not to avoid. the pressures of her family. the p. that are a- this still. that the movie has a sexualized- young woman. as you can see it netflix might have made a disservice when it comes to. the promotion. that they did towards this film. netflix has apologized for this instance saying that they are deeply sorry and they have
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updated the picture and the description of the film but they have admitted that the image for the promotional picture was not appropriate thomas- they- this was apparently not enough for some users. some actually canceled their prescription subscriptions to the website this user saying that the reason given to fillll yeah- ths american right wing politician says. she compared the film what to child *-*- so this user also said. she has a contradicting opinions says that this is what tick tock is doing to and nobody is talking about canceling. tick tock so this is a definitely a debate that has to be done- the film maybybe the marketing for the film was indeed a bit clumsy but it does allude to a larger reality which is the pressure that these teenage girls face on social media. and secondly-
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kathleen a big tech names are also making big moves ahead of this year's u. s. presidential election yes more news surrounding the presidential elections- microsoft has just announced that russian hackers have interfered in the presidential elections. so in this regard more and more big tech names are making big changes in order to avoid a misinformation campaigns. in the upcoming presidential elections just this week google announced that they will be removing auto complete- search option- for users this means that when they type in it trump is or biden is there will be no ouout of complete search suggess suggestion as we are used to seseeing. they said that this is because they will curb it misleading information about u. s. election as you can see i typed in trump is and the first- search that comes up is israel. so this is definitely a way to remove a searches that do seem to be endorsing
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political party's or a politician's twitter has also announced that changes this week saying that they will expand. misinformation roles to cover premature election results as has facebook they said that they will. label posts from candidates that declare premature victory all in all- many big tech names announcing a big moves before the presidential elections avoiding it misinformation on the web. lina with media watch thank you very much. not wraps up a of. minutes of live from paris but i'm back after the break with more twelve news please stay tuned runs.
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