>> welcome to live in paris, world news -- an analysis from france 24. these are the world news headlines. commander harris takes on migrant taksim latin america -- talks in latin america. peru awaits the result of a divisive face-off in its presidential election. on the left, the daughter of the former president. the middleground seems to be shrinking. the election battle becoming more and more bitter.

spain kick started its summer tourism season, welcoming vaccinated visitors from most countries and european visors who can prove they are not affected with covid-19. th is live from paris. two i very much for being with us. the u.s. vice president,, harris, on her first overseas mission has been trying to address the migrant crisis in latin america, pledging support to local police in guatemala to fight corruption in the country and also pledged to help young women get job in business opportunities. the majority of people who turn up at the u.s.-mexico border are

economic migrants. she is urging them to stay-at-home. do not compare to those were her words. talks were described as robust and thorough. vice president harris: the united states will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border. there are legal methods by which migration can and should occur, and i believe if you come to our border, you will be turned back. so, let's discourage our friend, our neighbors, our family members, from embarking on what is otherwise an extremely dangerous journey. >> migrants arriving at the u.s.-mexico border are from different countries, many have been trafficked, having paid criminal gangs to get them to the frontier. over 120,000 migrants arrived in april alone, and our report now

features a family that paid the money, made the journey through people trafficking, and then were deported back to where they used to have a home. >> -- a poor village east of guatemala city, holding 27 -- home to 700 people. last year, the 42-year-old and her daughter paid a smuggler $7,700 to enter the united states, which involved putting her house up as a collateral to pay the huge sum, but they were caught by u.s. border patrol and deported a week later. >> i already had a previous debt. wh we dided to go to the united states, i put my house as collateral to pay the smugglers. now i have two debts. >> like others, she and her daughter want to escape the cycle of poverty affecting 60% of the population. guatemala is marred by issues like corruption, violence, and climate change. minimum waghere is about $11

per day and all that has been made worse by the pandemic. >> i would like my daughter to study, but there is no money, so she has to stay like this. >> the situation is so bad that being deported from the u.s. has not discouraged her hopes of trying her luck again someday. >> i am afraid of what i have heard of what can happen to migrants. sometimes i am afraid, and sometimes i feel encouraged. i would try to migrate again if that means i can help my mother. >> since april of this year, u.s. customs and border protection have reported more than 300,000 encounters at the southern border. >> a story repeated, of course, through many families across latin america, summing up many of the problems people are facing, which is why they are seeking to migrate by any means possible. let's get more analysis about,

the harris's visit to -- about kamala harris's visit to latin america. we are joined by an associate professor at the american universi during the from shington. kamala harris has a tough task. i am sure you would agree. is guatemala the right place to start? >> good evening. guatemala is aood ple to start because of the options, right? every money thanks -- everybody thinks the issues that the u.s. mexico border and that is where they put the emphasis and think about militarizing the border further, but the issue is in the countries of origin. el salvador is going through a tough political situation. we saw power grab byhe president there against the aditional power, and mexico held midterm elections yesterda

therefore, guatemala was a good place to start. that has already been good conversations with the guatemalan president, and now she is going to mexico soon. what a mile is a good place to do so. -- guatemala is a good place to do so. >> tackling those issues at the source -- gang violence, no job opportunities, how can kamala harris in the united states begin to change this? >> iis a hard thing. the u.s. has a bad rate of nying economic -- in other countries. this ipositiveecause it is not just focusing on the policing and deportation of migrants, but it is something that will take a long time. this is not a short-term solution. this will happen -- will start having effects years from now. >> we saw and reports they were

making the journey, paying all the money they had to pay and putting the house in as collateral and being deported back because they were very legally in the u.s., coming home, back to guatemala to face a lot of that -- debt, facing this vicious circle of poverty and deprivation they are caught in. but is it corruption that is the biggest problem? is that the biggest people to root out? -- people to root out -- evil to root out? >> it a problem in the region and the u.s. bringing in billions of dollars in aid can get into corrupt hands, were going to contract with american companies, and a lot of the beneficiaries will be in the u.s.. so, the challenge is reaching the people that needed them

most, the poorest. that is not an easy thing to do. there is also the issue of inequality that is very big in central america d in mexico. also, see issues of climate change that also have made it harder for farmers in central america to have substence farming, and the warn drugs that has not worked and created violence in the region. >> you make it sound like a perfect storm of things coming together to make life incredibly difficult for almost everybody in latin america, and that explains why so many people are headed north, but coming back to the women we featured in our report, their suation, how do you improve that? clearly, kamala harris is thinking of people like that when she wants to boost initiatives to help women and get them jobs and greater

opportunities, but if you look at the situation these women were facing, it is an incredibly difficult task, isn't it? where do you start building that? is it about building american businesses to invest? what would you think? >> you are right. it is a terrible situation that these people, like the ones you interviewed, are faced with. one of the positive things of, harris giving her speech is to recognize most of us want to stay home. if we have income and a job, we are not going to risk ourselves dying and route to the north. unfortunate she said the border was closed and they should not come. they don't do it because it is a choice. they either cannot find a way to direct threats, often death have

threats by gangs. that is where they have to it is hard to pay a lot of money and trying to turn themselves into ask for asylum. that is their right under international law. another positive thing we can do to avoid these people getting exploited and attacked through mexico and sometimes at the border is part of this plan to open more offices in the american embassies in central america so that people can start trying asylum cases there. now the key is it would have to be a very fast process because if you have a threat you will not wait for months or years for the embassy to give you an appointment and give you papers back. you're going to live cute -- risk your life crossing. that is the challenge these

families have -- they have a tough challenge on their hands. that is why they are willing to put their lives and those of their kids at risk. something, harris did not address, she said often times the parents of these children are already living in the united states. they are trying to reach direct family members. in the pandemic, with the u.s. reopening and more economic growth in the near future, the u.s. needs labor, and you see signs in spanish all over the place saying they need workers. the u.s. will benefit from workers coming in a legal and safe fashion. >> ty once again. we are watching for developments on the story. let's stay on the american continent and look at the presidential tightrope being walked in perdue -- peru.

the conservative kickoff which murray, 49.2%. let's bring in our correspondent who is in lima. how would you call the election now -- what would your gut feeling say? >> the goats are still being counted by the electoral commission in peru and it is hard to know what things will look like when the results are final. pedro castillo, the socialist candidate is now ahead of keiko fujimori, the right winger, and even though he is ahead, it is hard to project as votes are being counted and there are also

votes from peruvians overseas that need to be counted, and this means that even though pedro castillo is slightly ahead, things could still go either way the next couple of hours, and even the next couple of days, as all the votes are counted and as candidates might ask for recounts of the votes. >> telus a bit more about these two contenders, tom. tom: there are two possible paths ahead. keiko fujimori is a right winger, the daughter of former president alberto fujimori. sheants to stabilize the country economically, and even though for 50% of the population she is reassuring because she won't change a lot and is the continuation of the same political system.

for the other half of the population, that is the problem -- she is the continuation of a political system that is in a deep crisis and has not worked for a while. there have been five different presidents in the past five years in peru, and a lot of people feel like she would be the continuation of this corrupt system in peru, a system many people feel is corrupt because there were many corruption scandals the last few years. pedro castillo is a socialist. he is little known. is a primary school teacher. he wants to draft a new constitution, make it more inclusive for all peruvians. he wants to redistribute the wealth and actually nationalize the mining sector, and even though for a lot of people he represents hope, a new path, and real change, for the other half of the population he is a communist, is dangerous, and might turn peru into a new venezuela. >> indeed we are looking at a

country divided and an election on a knife edge, as they would say. he worked for joining us. looking for -- thank you for joining us. looking for all of the development. to close to call. let's turn to spain jumpstarting their summer tourism, welcoming vaccinated visitors from most countries and european visitors who can prove they are not affected -- infected with the coronavirus. spain has also opened ports to cruise ships but there is some confusion about new rules, and that may have prevented the numbers hopeful about arriving. >> traffic at madrid's international airport was still low compared to the flow of tourists before the 2019 crisis. the doors are open to tourists who can prove they are not infected and two people worldwide who have been fully vaccinated. >> i travel a lot, and each time they ask for a pcr tests.

it costs a lot. >> everything is finally now open. all you need is the vaccination certificates. >> i did the covid test, the 48-hour version of it, and i also have been vaccinated, fully vaccinated. >> the spanish government has set a goal of receiving 14.5 million to 15.5 million visitors. that is about 40% of the torts from the same period in 2019 -- tourists from the same period in 2019. one hotel manager in madrid was confident his this would pick up. >> what we are seeing in the last few days or weeks is that the number of tourists who want to come to madrid is increasing every day. i think the forecasts we have are quite optimistic. we have doubled the number of customers from april to may, and i think in june we will double

the number of people that came in may. >> spain has been one of europe's worst hurt nations, hover infection rates have fallen and vaccination rates are progressing with curfews now scrapped in most regions. >> from the beach, we turn our i -- our eyes to business. the u.s. seized over $2 million paid as ransom. kate: the operators of the colonial pipeline decided to pay nearly $4.5 million in may to resume control over its pipeline. that pipeline supplies newly half the fuel consumed on the east coast. u.s. officials say they have been able to recover about half of the money paid via cryptocurrency by acking the digital wallet. agencies have long warned

currencies like big toe -- bitcoin are risky. the u.s. is the colonial pipeline was hacked by criminal group that has links to russia, though moscow denies any knowledge of it. the incident has put more pressure on companies and governments to step up cyber defenses. >> ransomware attack attacks have increased in both scope and sophistication in the last year, targeting our critical infrastructure, businesses of all types, whole cities, and even law enforcement. ransomware and digital extortion pose a national security and an economic security threat to the united states. >> google says it will change the way it operates its advertising business in a settlement here in france. it stems from a complaint made by media groups including news organizations and for ghetto that accuse the online giants of

having a monopoly over online sales. it was an agreement that could spark changes in the global business model. >> a landmark antitrust settlement with the competition watchdog -- one that for the first time has prompted tech giant google to agreed will make changes to the fast advertising business, the source of most of its revenue. the aim is to ensure it does not abuse violence pick >> we have agreed on ascetic commitments making it easier for publishers to make use of data and use of our tools with other ads and technologies. we will be testing and developing these changes over the next couple of months before rolling them out more broadly, including some of them globally. >> as part of the deal, google has been fined 220 million euros. the platform added the own -- their own marketplace. the head of the fca said the

decision was unpredentednd targeted the algorithmic options that power the advertising business. >> this is the first decision in the world that really deals with how online advertising works from the display part of an online advertising, all the different publicity that we see on websites and apps you can use on your smartphone. >> u.s. tech giants have been facing intensified scrutiny in europe and elsewhere over business practices, but germany the latest country to launch an investigation to google. >> on the trading action, and mixed day so the tech heavy nasdaq closing slightly higher. giants like google, apple, amazon, facebook, shrugging off an agreement to fix the minimum corporate tax rate at 15%. shares of biogen sort after u.s. authorities approved its new alzheimer's treatment.

we saw a mostly higher close for the major european indices paid the frankfurt decks slightly in the red there -- indices. frankfurt d slightly in the redax there. for two years in a row, france has attracted more invest by foreign businesses than any other european economy. 985 new projects will -- were launched here last year, down 18% from 29 -- 2018 because of the pandemic. president emmanuel macron welcomed the news saying there had been a concrete and positive impact on the french economy, including the creation of some 30,000 jobs. earlier i spoke to the chairman of business france and ambassador for business investment about why companies are choosing to put down roots in france. >> we talk about more than 40%

increase overall. france is only at18. one reason is that whate did early on, protected the essentiaeconomy, preserve rights, protect and put a net of security aund the economy. that is why we put a lot of guarantee loan, for love, and a lot of that seems to have paid off in the sense we have a rebound in the economy and when you look at figures, investors continue to vote with their feet and checkbook. >> airline executives have issued a rare joint appeal for a travel corridor to be opened between the u.s. and the u.k.. the two countries have among the highest covid vaccination rates in the world but have restrictions. the u.k. currently requires a tw oh week four american arrivals -- two week quarantine for american arrivals.

representatives of the airline industry have urged leaders to reconsider travel rules. take a listen. >> the formation of a u.s.-u.k. travel corridor would reopen the most valuable, long-haul travel market for each of our countries, creating significant benefits. >> there is a risk if we don't open up we don't get the economy recovery we should be benefiting from after the vaccination program. i think there is more at stake than a holiday. it is about trade, visiting friends and relatives, doing business, and employing people. >> more than holidays, serious business there involved in the travel industry. >> to what. excellent -- thank you. excellent. jeff bezos will write his own rocket into space, joining the first crew to fly and a blue origin capsule. the amazon found that he will launch july 20 along with his

firefighter brother who is called mark. also making up will be the highest in a charity auction. -- bitter in a charity auction. >> the billionaire founder will be on board the new shepherd rocket from his own company, blue origin, when it launches into space in july. he made the unexpected announcement on his own instagram account, revealing that his brother will be joining him. >> we want you to come with me -- are you serious? >> if you are willing. >> a total of three seats will be available, one of which will beccupied by the winner of an auction. the current high bid standing at $2.8 million, and it will be the

first suborbital sightseeing trip carried out by blue origin. in the early 2000's, several people paid millions of dollars to travel to the international space station. fly onof the kilometers aboveill the surface of the earth for just a few minutes. withlue origin, bezos joins fellow billionaires elon musk and richard branson in the competition for space tourism. branson's company version go action -- virgin galactic. elon musk aiming to send people into space for severalays to visit the international space station or even for a trip around the moon. >> back down to earth here in the studio in paris, that is it for this section of life from paris. stay with us.

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