>> the republicans are not going to vote for it. . the democrats in a different situation, trying out how they could pass ceiling witt any republican support. what is at stake? a lot because if they failed to pass the bill, if they don't raise the debt ceiling by mid-october, the u.s. reaches that ceiling, meaning it could default. that would be the first time in u.s. history that would happen and it would have great consequences on the u.s. economy and global financial markets.

everyone of course wants to try to avoid that, but the lukens are playing politics, trying to force the democrats into doing it on their own without any participation from the republicans. >> pointed out the consequences economically and the global sense of any shutdown. just to remind people watching, shutdown affects everything from library service to schools to aid for communities affected by the recent disasters, all those matters of things where federal money comes into question. there is also infighting among the democrats about the $1 trillion infrastructure built and the $3.5 trillion bill as well. two major parts of biden's plan. tell us about this. >> yes. that is to have the biggest elements on joe biden's agenda. and right now, the republicans are the least of the democrats worries. the problem is within the democratic party between the progressives and the moderates.

there are two bills. you mentioned the infrastructure bill. that is a bipartisan deal that was negotiated between democrats and republicans. it is about $1.2 trillion, and it is focused on traditional infrastructure like roads, bridges, transportation. and then there is that $3.5 trillion spending bill that is much wider. it includes things like universal pre-k, like free community college, and other things like that. that is something the progressives are very focused on. the problem is $3.5 trillion. that is something moderate senators on the democratic side like joe manchin or senator kyrsten sinema, they don't want that. joe manchin said, i am not going anywhere over $1.5 trillion. the problem is the progressives are saying, if we don't get the 3.5 trillion dollars, we will not vote for the bipartisan

infrastructure deal, so it is sort of a back-and-forth between progressives and the democrats. nancy pelosi believes she can get both things done in the next few days. >> thank you very much indeed. in washington, thank you. site cozy is to appeal the one-year jail time for exceeding spending on a political campaign. the case is known in france named after the company that made fake receipts to try to hide the unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2012. >> seven years after the suspicions first arose, sir cozy has been sentenced to a year in jail, a conviction which he will be allowed to spend at home with an electronic tag. it is a tougher sentence than the six months requested by the prosecutors. the former french president was not present for the ruling. he always denied the allegations. >> presidents are cy, with

whom i spoke -- the president with whom i just spoke to, we will have an appeal on it and discuss it again. >> the courts found him guilty of overspending. >> nicholas are cozy new about the legal limits. this was not his first campaign. he knows that well. he had received two written warnings. he continued to organize rallies on the same scale as before. >> lacking behind in opinion polls, his team spent at least 42 million euros on a series of major rallies, hoping to serve the second mandate in 2012. that is almost twice the legal about. the person hired by the right wing party used fake prices to conceal.

in march, he received a three-year prison sentence in a wiretapping case with two years suspended. he is also a case alleging he received millions of euros from moammar qaddafi for his campaign in 2007. >> let's get some analysis. earlier, we spoke with a professor at the university of nottingham. >> very interesting that all of the leading figures and the veria candidates have expressed their support for him and so forth, but it is embarrassing and it is not going to make it very easy for them. at this stage in the election campaign before the primary, whatever form that will take my they need to play to the right wing electorate, who will still hold him in high regard. they will see him as something of a victim. but further down the line, when

we get to november, december, when we are choosing the candidate for the center right as you call them, then that will be a bit more difficult. it is not clear to me that they would want him doing the work. >> a controversial health pass is being extended to teenagers 13 years and older in france. adults have been subject to this rule for the last two months. announced by president micron in july, it appointed millions of people to get jobs, giving france one of the highest rates of vaccination against covid-19. thousands of people have turned out in protest saying the past discriminates against people who are against the vaccine. >> until now, only a don't have had to show a covid health pass -- only adults have had to show

a covid health pass, but now those over 13 will have to show one. >> [speaking non-english language] >> the pas does not obligate toryd the path -- the pass is now public at tory -- the pass is now obligatory in several places. >> [speaking non-english language] >> it will be c1 the pass will be needed exports are being played inside or outdoors. >>speaking feign language] >> september is usually when

teenagers join clubs like this athletics on, but coaches are rried. >> [speaking foreign language] >> sports clubs are hoping those teenagers will return once the obligation to have a health pass is lifted by the french government. just over 62% of those aged 12 to 17 have been fully vaccinated, compared to 72% of all adults. mark: serbia and kosovo have reached an agrment to end a tense standoff on their order. the two neighbors have been at loggerheads more than 10 days. kosovo agreed to remove special police units on satday, and local serbs agreed to dismantle

barricades they put in at the same time. israel and bahrain cemented their deal agreeing to establish diplomatic ties this thursday with the king of the small gulf arab state hosting israel's prime minister for the first time. the toisraeli diplomat called the visit warm and optimistic. >> it is a site many would never have imagined kosovo. israel's foreign minister touches down in bahrain, greeted by the prime minister. meanwhile, a commercial flight takes off in the other direction, headed for israel.

>> i'm delighted to visit [indiscernible] only two hours and 55 minutes away from the destination. >> the visits come a year after the signing of the so-called abraham accords where israel solidified ties with a number of nations, an agreement brokered by then president trump. the new embassy in bahrain will be the second in recent months, following the june inauguration of an embassy in the uae.

israel and bahrain will also send a number of agreements including economic deals as well as economic accords. mark: ethiopia is expelling seven officials days after the united nations sent officials to the tigre region. ethiopia accused them of meddling in internal ethiopian affairs. mexico sending 70 people to port-au-prince. the united states is also returning migrants to the

haitian capital. >> every morning, the building of the refugee aid commission witnesses people. to achieve his goal, he took a terrible trip across nine countries. the mexican national guard lashed out against him and his wife. still, he wants to live here. >> my intention never was to go to the united states. i wanted to find a job here. i can see there is work here in mexico. i'm really hoping to get a residence permit because you cannot live as an illegal alien here. >> in the last few weeks, hundreds of haitian migrants arrived in mexico. romeo was just granted a bed and a shelter. he has not set foot in haiti in four years now. >> i suffer the violence of

haiti's political crisis, physical and psychological violence. >> micro shelters are not many in mexico city. to cope with the influx of haitian migrants arriving these last few days, volunteers set up makeshift beds on the roof. >> they are single men. for families, we try to find places in another shelter. usually, our shelter can accommodate between 20 and 30 people at most. last time, 30 migrants arrived. the day after that, 20 new people arrived. >> despite the lack of infrastructure and the urgent need to deal with the migration crisis, the government of the capital has a plan to open new shelter beds. mark: time to turn our other business, and who better to join us then kate moody? the french government has a plan

to deal with sharply rising prices of energy. >> cast bills -- gas bil have been rising sharply. the french prime minister said the government would be blocking any further increases, so gas prices will not kill higher than that 12.6% in april. electricity bills will be capped at a 4% increase in february. e governnt has announced plans to send checks to low income families to help with those bills. >> we will block it. there will not be a race in the price of gas. it is in my power to do so. from april onward, following the advice of experts, we will see how the situation evolves. the price of gas should drop.

we will be seeing the effect of the current rise. the main thing is for gas consumers not to see this incredibly strong rise which is being predicted. >> u.s. congress has avoided a partial shutdown with council representatives following the senate in approving a stopgap measure. still unresolved is the issue of america's debt ceiling. the two-year suspension of america's borrow limit ended in august. the national debt kept rising. the debt load is now bigger than the authorized ceiling. treasury secretary janet yellen says the u.s. government will run out of money by october 18. democrats had been trying to tie raising the debt ceiling into the wider funding debate. failure to act on the debt limit would lead to america defaulting on its debt. that has never happened before

and would have wide ranging consequences for both the u.s. and local economies. the democratic party is also facing an impasse over other spending priorities. while most are ready to pass a pair down bipartisan infrastructure plan, so progressives insist they want a wider reaching infrastructure bill. the high cost of daycare facilities has forced many american wen to leave their jobs, especially since the start of the pandemic. >> after her daughter's birth, heidi went back to working full-time without a major obstacle in her way. the cost of childcare even for just one day a week, was almost a cost of her friend. in the united states, the average cost of childcare is around $10,000 a year and in 32 states, the bill is higher than the price of going to local

college. joe biden had been pushing to cap subsidized care as part of a social drive. >> it provides opportunities for families not to pay more than they can afford. >> progressives still want to boost wages for the early childhood workforce, a sector that has lost 10% of its workers since the beginning of the pandemic and feels left behind by the government. >> we are professionals. we have degrees. we work 50 hours a week taking care of the children so that everybody else can go to work. >> since the start of the health crisis, 2.3 million u.s. women have dropped out of the workforce. any of the faced with childcare obligations at home. >> wall street closed out its september slump of a bang. the dow jones slipping over 500 points at the closing bell as it counts its worst month of the year. the s&p 500 down over 1%, and it

had its worst month since march 2020. major european indices trending lower as well despite data showing unemployment across the eurozone fell from 7.6% to 7.5%. moving on to some of the day's other business headlines. a petrol industry group reports 27% of gas stations are still dry, about the same number as wednesday. profits at h&m jumped back to precrisis levels in july and august, but september so renewed -- showed renewed signs of trouble as the brenda said it could not meet demand -- as the brand said it could not meet demand. ports of los angeles and long beach handle someone percent o rgo shipping into the united

states experiencing a traffic jam, a visual representation of these global supply problems we can -- we keep talking about. mark: they've got to get more supplies onto the ship. it is a very tricky situation all around. thank you for joining us. the honest business reporter, and now we go to the honest business of telling truth from fake. this is a story which comes back on a regular basis. maybe it is all true. >> might be. it is unlikely, though. there is a kind of underlying principle to things here. this is true. people who drive a car and who

live in paris probably do not like they don't go very much because she has launched a war against the car. she would like to do the same on waterways and bring the speed limit down to 10 kilometers per hour. she is also planning to run for the presidency. she is known for this. she is supposedly using it as a means for pushing her campaign forward. there's a story that has been circulating. they got dozens of shares on one facebook page alone. it is an article that talks about how she was stripped of her driver's license some time back for speeding on the ring around paris. not only was she speeding, she told the police that at this hour of the evening, there's no danger, so you don't have to look at the speedometer.

at the end, she was stripped of her driver's license. as you might suspect, it is not actually fact. it w going all over facebook, and people were even saying this is the cherry on top. this is going too far. she was stripped of her driver's license for speeding and now is looking to bring down the speed limit at the capital. they were absolutely furious. >> people spoke out via social media, as everyone does. >> what is interesting about this one is hit out of herself -- this was first publishedn 2015, and who don't twitter said , here we go again.

this was back in 2018, by the way. she has tried to clear her name about this numeral times. delighted to see that in every full stroke going back to 2015 has been published by "the parisian," a reputable newspaper. this is what started the whole thing. it was published on the eve, and it looks like the typeface, but in fact, as a number of fact checking outfits determined, it was simply a satirical article published on a satirical facebook page that started the whole thing off. even the fact checkers got it wrong. mark: interesting that the fact checkers even got it wrong.

>> it is so strict as to be completely believable, and this new bit of a hint, wink-wink, nudge-nudge involved, then of course people are going to believe it. if you try this to a reputable newspaper -- mark: it strikes me that's what they were seeking to do. quickly found on the facebook page in question -- >> we found that on the facebook page in question. for the record, had over never lost her license. >> she has reduced the speed limit around paris, which does not make her popular with certain drivers. mark: she will get someoneo

drive the bus for her. >> i want to quickly show you, this is your own observatory. this is sputnik, russian news media, and they are talking about how she said to contest or question the words of the president is a step in the direction of terrorism, which would be a pretty extreme thing to say, to question the esidt is terrorism. unsurprisingly, she did not say that. it was in a satirical -- it is a parody account also on twitter. if you look at their local affair, there's a detail that gives this away. the thing is, it is not a million miles away from the original. it is interesting that some

deputies, when fake news was originally generating from this account, they said shut it down. the owner of the account pleaded freedom of expression. authorities are not there to ban humor. this is a slippery slope towards totalitarianism. mark: where is the actual caricature? it just looks like a life. >> there is a line where it is tough to know between freedom of expression. mark: so pleased you are here to take the lies -- james always striking at the truth. thank you very much indeed. stay with us. more to come "live from paris." ♪

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