live from berlin. tonight the u.n. says it is preparing to help up to 120,000 refugees in armenia after a week that saw a mass exodus of ethnic armenians. also coming up tonight -- new york, underwater. the big apple, facing flash flooding, floods that have disrupted the city's subway system. and bomb attacks, rocking pakistani provinces. dozens are dead after attacks on

gatherings to mark the birth of the islamic prophet mohammed. and russian president vladimir putin, turning to the wagner group, appointing a commander to take charge of volunteer units in ukraine. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers watching on pbs, in the united states, and to all of you around the world, welcome. the u.n. says azerbaijan has requested a delegation be sent to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground there. this is a surprise move by azerbaijan which has been saying no to letting international observers into the region. ethnic armenians last week began fleeing nagorno-karabakh after the takeover took place.

they feared they would be killed if they stayed. 90,000 people or two thirds of the enclave's population have already left the region. territory says it will cease to exist as a separate entity by the end of this year, giving up any hope of independence from azerbaijan or any chance of being absorbed by armenia. our correspondent sent this report from the armenian town about 50 km from the border. reporter: cars, stopped with piles of belongings arriving in armenia. each day the number of refugees grows, leaving the area nearly empty. most of the ethnic armenians decided to leave their homes. they believe they were in danger of extermination. despite azerbaijan's assurances of their safety.

thousands of new arrivals reached the first city over the border, goris, the first place they can get help and shelter. they shared their hardships they went through to get here. >> we spent three days in traffic. it was a difficult trip. it was a very difficult moment for us to leave our town and our home. >> inside of three years, i've lost two homes. my four young children have heard so many shells and missiles, they have cried so much. it affected them psychologically. i just wish my kids had a safe place to go to school like other children. reporter: armenia's city 50 km away from the board has

become a humanitarian hub for those fleeing. thousands of refugees have been arriving, where they have been registered and the first medical and psychological hub is being provided by the volunteers. international organizations have been working nonstop as well as the whole city to provide the refugees with all the necessary items. people are being fed with sandwiches and tea, things that were deprived of for a long time. the volunteers also say housing all the refugees will be an issue for a small country like armenia. >> i think the most present thing seems to be accommodation. it is an overwhelming amount of people. the country system was not prepared to take this many people, i think. reporter: the hospitality of fellow armenians eases the burden, the -- refugees say

they feel welcome. >> our town is supporting people. especially kids. the locals are doing whatever they can. they provide shelter and feed them. our town can do this. reporter: some refugees have been in goris for a few days sleeping in their cars. some plan to go to the capital city and leave with the relatives. others say they have no one to go to. all of them are overwhelmed by the uncertainty of their future. brent: i spoke with rob butler from the world health organization, he was at the armenian border with azerbaijan earlier today, he told me more about what the refugees need most. >> the 98,000 as we just heard

at 8 p.m. local time, the 98,000 refugees that have crossed the border have incredible needs. chronic disease patients that need medicines and treatment. we have malnutrition, most concerning the amongst the elderly and the very young. we have suspect situations in terms of the vaccination status of the refugees come in, we do not have vaccination records, so we are unsure of what the vaccination response -- of whether the vaccination response will have to be delivered. a small town like goris as overwhelmed as are there social services. i will return tonight with a sense of incredible solidarity from the local community. people are opening their homes, community centers to provide accommodation. and the remarkable coming together of the armenian population in goris.

brent: is that the information you are getting? when they hear ethnic armenians going into the border -- over the border into armenia, the question is whether there will be welcomed in armenia, is that the impression you have gotten? >> certainly, they have been very warmly welcomed. incredible response today. you just saw the images of the registration center. registration clothing -- registration, food, water. for those of them that have family here in armenia, they are making a beeline to them, but there are plenty of others that are going to need -- that are going to have accommodation needs. that is what we are here to also support. not accommodation particularly but as a special envoy to the regional director for the w.h.o. europe, my job is to gauge what the health needs are.

and which services, what supplies we need to deliver, we have delivered burn kits, surgical kits, trauma kits, mental health support, of course, a lot of anxiety and despair, psychosocial support will be very important in the days and weeks ahead. brent: that also speaks to long-term needs of this population, what are these people going to need when the initial attention from the world has waned? >> that is a disturbing thought, that we will see fatigue, and there will be a waning at some point of this issue and this crisis. they will need strong social support networks. but i'm very confident -- the sense of community we saw today, and given this is just day four of this exodus, we are very confident that the local

and national authorities have a medium term plan in place. this is one of the key questions i will be asking. brent: what about the international community, what would you say, what to the armenians need most right now from the international community? >> well, accommodation as you said is critical. we saw today cars arriving with four mattresses piled on top, armchairs on the backseat. so they are desperate to find a safe place, and soon, because goris is at about 1500 meters in altitude and we are going to have an issue in terms of the weather over the next month, as it cools in that particular area, and the rains will not help, there is one road in and out, refugees coming down it, supplies going the other way. brent: rob, we appreciate you

taking the time to update us tonight. thank you. in the u.s., the skies over new york city have opened dropping so much precipitation in just a few hours that much of the city has come to a standstill. but taylors has forced parts of the subway system to close. buses and flights are also delayed and there are also reports of people abandoning their cars to escape flash flooding. authorities have called this storm life-threatening and have declared an emergency. i want to go to our correspondent in new york. in the middle of the storm. i think you are in brooklyn right now, correct me if i'm wrong, how bad is the storm? >> that's correct. i am in brooklyn right now. as you can see, the rain has let up a little bit the past few hours, but do not let that fool you because we are expecting

more rain throughout the afternoon and then the early evening. it's not going to get better. -- it's not going to get better they are saying until the early hours of saturday. the new york mayor eric adams and new york's governor both said that the says not over yet and people have to stay on high alert because this is a dangerous situation. meteorologists are saying if there is rainfall of more than an inch per hour, you can get flash floods in the streets of new york. the water really has nowhere to go with the steel surfaces. the drains cannot swallow that much water. so within minutes these roads could get flooded. what's also extremely dangerous is the water will run into apartments. if people do not have a way out, that has caused many fatalities in the past. luckily so far there are no casualties reported today. but they are expecting more rain

and they are hoping to keep it that way and warning people to stay at home if they can, do not travel, but we are approaching the evening rush hour in new york city and you know what that means, a lot of people on the subway and on the roads. brent: we are still in hurricane season but we are not talking about hurricane here. what brought this kind of rain to new york city so quickly? >> a variety of factors. there's and atlantic storm -- an atlantic storm bringing a lot of rain. and tropical storm ophelia made landfall last weekend moved up1 week and -- last week and moved up and we saw the remnants of that. in brooklyn where i am, some were submerged knee-deep in

water, water cascading down the entrances of subways, that is what is happening. the reason why these storms are carrying so much moisture are the rising sea temperatures. dumping that once they made landfall over places in this case like new york city. brent: talk about a wet summer and fall as well. try to stay dry and brooklyn. thank you. here's around above -- here's a roundup of other stories making headlines around the world. dianne feinstein has died at the age of 90. she was known as a pragmatic lawmaker who found common ground with republicans. she was the oldest serving u.s. senator. las vegas police have charged a man with a 1996 murder of rap legend to puncture core -- tupak

shakur. he previously admitted he was in the catalog from which the fatal gunfire came. the unsolved case has long frustrated investigators and has fascinated the public. the ukraine refugee agency says the -- that young refugee agency says the vast majority entering the e.u. in italy which has experienced an 83% increase on last year's numbers. at lease 57 people have been killed in two separate suicide bomb attacks targeting religious events in pakistan. the first occurred in the southwest and the second blast in the northwest. one struck a religious procession that was marking the birth of the islamic prophet mohammed. that attack claimed at least 52 lives. several more people have been killed in the northwest where another mosque was targeted.

so far there have been no claims of responsibility for either attack. a journalist based in islamabad gave us her assessment of the blast. >> it seems like it was a coordinated effort given the similarity and the nature of the targets. and the expectation that many people would be gathered not only for friday prayers but also to celebrate the prophet muhammad's birthday. they have denied this attack. in the past, the islamic state have been responsible in attacks, such as the most recent one earlier this year on a religious political party rally. we have to wait for the result of intelligence gathering. some have also blamed separatists. the attacks indicate a more sophisticated transnational

element. essentially two groups being targeted in both locations. the police and the religious procession which represents a variant of islamic worship that many extremists reject and find abhorrent. the police has historically been the real true frontline victims of terrorism as well as them in security force fighting the daily badosa contain extremist elements. unlike the military which has garrisoned in highly secure and concentrated locations, the police are more vulnerable because they are spread thinly throughout the country and are required by the nature of their work to engage on a daily basis, making them an easier target. brent: the kremlin has tasked a top commander of the wagner mercenary group with setting up volunteer units to fight in ukraine. putin today met with andre truax shuffle played a leading role in the wagner group.

this comes a month after the mysterious death of yevgeny prigozhin who led a short mutiny against muska. the draft has been unpopular in russia. an increase of wagner mercenaries on the ground could ease pressure on conscripts. i want to pull in an expert on foreign policy, mercenary groups with the defense university in washington, d.c. where does the wagner group actually stands right now after prigozhin's death? all of a sudden we are talking about a new commander. >> the wagner group is still intact but scattered and in disarray. the mission of the lea der is to command it putin on a very short leash.

that is what he will try to do. but what he can do is another question. brent: what can he do? >> well, the wagner group is split into two groups, the old guard annual guard, the new guard are those ex-convicts dumped out of russian jails a year ago and sent to fight in ukraine. that is the easy part. those new guard have been absorbed into the russian military and the new leader was going to be their commander and he is going to be sitting in the ministry of defense as a contractor and there's not much that those guys can do, they are basically cannon fodder. the old guard which are higher quality mercenaries, on africa, that is where prigozhin kept his best mercenaries, they are kind of out of reach. even if moscow can reach them in mali or sudan or burkina faso,

they can just disappear into the congo and become freelance mercenaries. so there's a big question about the old guard. brent: interesting you say that, so they can basically disappear and be out of reach from any authorities back in moscow. if i'm understanding you correctly. what does that tell us about the role of wagner as we understood it under prigozhin? is there the possibility we will see the resurrection of wagner t o the status it once had? >> i don't know about that. what i do think is going to happen is he will take over the wagner group guys who are in ukraine, the cannon fodder, and they are easy -- they are essentially serfs or slaves to the russian military at this point. putin used the wagner group since 2014 through today as a sort of fifth column and africa

spread -- in africa to spread russian influence. because wagner and all mercenaries have plausible deniability and he uses that to manipulate for coups and to do other things. what the future of that is remains unknown. the new leader met today with putin and the deputy defense minister in the same meeting, he went around to africa to all of those places wagner is working in to try to talk to the heads of state there so sort of reassure them that prigozhin's out, but we are still in control. we don't know how successful he was. i suspect he was not terribly successful because prigozhin's relationship with african countries was strictly on a bilateral/personal level. you can't replace it with an empty seat from the kremlin.

brent: sean, with the latest on the wagner group. it is like a thriller to find out what the next step will be. thank you. the games in china -- afghanistan's women's volleyball team will play on saturday. the squad is made up of exiles who were forced to flee the country after the takeover by the taliban. the taliban by the way as you may know has since banned women's sports and persecuted female athletes. reporter: they are ready to take on the continent. afghanistan's women's volleyball team have overcome huge up supposed to be at the asian games. forced to start new lives abroad by the taliban's treatment of women in sports, now they are competing on the big stage. >> participation and coming here

give them hope for the future. reporter: the team will be huge underdogs in the game. the players are based in different countries and do not get state funding like other sides competing here. but they are determined to make the most of their moment in the sun. >> i am so happy to be here. also so excited because it's my first time coming here. reporter: the team's expectations of success in china may be modest, but they are fighting an altogether more important battle for the women at home barred from playing sports. >> it is my big wish that maybe one day i hope every woman can play a sport in their own country and in peace. >> we hope all those women

still and afghanistan who wish to be a part of the team here with these girls, we hope that everything will change and the taliban even accept the women, but it will take time. reporter: the time is now for these women, though, and a win against kazakhstan would be the perfect conclusion to their tale of resilience. brent: europe has taken a commanding lead over the usa on the first day of the ryder cup in rome. rome went 4-0 had on an incredible morning in the matches, the first time that europe had ever right washed the u.s. in an opening session of the cup. the afternoon four ball matches were more even with the score after day one now standing at 6.5-1. -- 6.5-1.5. british police have arrested a 16-year-old schoolboy suspected of cutting down an iconic tree. the sycamore had stood in

northern england for hundreds of years before it was cut down in what appears to be an act of vandalism. reporter: centuries of history torn down in just one night. one of britain's most celebrated and photographed trees reduced to just a stump. the old sycamore was a beloved landmark to locals, but was known far beyond the u.k. for its dramatic appearance. officials said messages of grief have been pouring in from the public. >> this meant a lot to people. people have been proposed to hear. held family occasions here. some people may have scattered the ashes of loved ones here. for someone to feel that they can do this to such a site, i find really hard to come brent.

i feel a real sense of lost today. reporter: visitors decried what police believe was a deliberate act of vandalism. >> very upset. a lot of people got joy from it. took pictures of it. sad. such a shame somebody has come and vandalized a beautiful part of the countryside. reporter: police have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of criminal damage. but there's still hope of new life breaking from the aging tree. shutes could grow from its stump though it would take hundreds of years to restore its former glory. brent: it is a barbie world. at least this year, barbie has been one of the biggest box office hits around the world as audiences dress up. some countries including vietnam and kuwait have banned the film. barbie is also officially

not an release in russia. but some smaller screens there are showing some bootleg copies. ♪ reporter: this mall is all pink. and barbie is coming to the screens through a loophole. unlicensed and dubbed copies have found their way. to avoid licensing problems, some are selling tickets showing the future as a preview. russia's culture ministry and some politicians are not amused. >> it is so far from reality. i don't think it promotes what russia wants to bring to the world today. some call it traditional values. reporter: 140 miles away from the capital, barbiemania is not a thing. >> right now, we need patriotic russian films to raise morale and cut out

western habits from our lives. reporter: but others have a more nuanced view. >> russia's universal, to become a more cultured, sociable person you need to watch films from other countries. reporter: she is unlikely to lose her throne to barbie in russia but it's possible that the film might have found its way to a small screen in the city, too. brent: no barbie? what would ken do? after a short break, i will be back to take you through "the day." ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

>> it is 10:00 p.m. paris time. a big welcome to france 24. these are your headlines this hour. over 97,000 people have not crossed into armenia from going to karabakh as the situation spirals for refugees. the united nations is readying a mission to the region for the first time in 30 years. leaders from nine southern european countries on the island nation of malta with mediterranean migration, the topic causing all the fuss. and a last republican stopgap funding effort collapses in the

u.s. house of representatives, leaving the government on the verge of a shutdown. thanks for joining us live from paris. first after those headlines, it is a case which has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public. the death of tupac sikora -- tupac shakur, killed in a shooting in las vegas back in 2006. on friday, one of the last witnesses to his death was charged on one count of murder with a deadly weapon. a nevada grand jury indicted him on those murder charges. davis is now 60 years old and

has long been known to investigators and even admitted he was in the cadillac from which the gunfire erupted during that fatal shooting. we will have more on those charges throughout the evening. for the first time in 30 years, this weekend, the united nations will send a mission to nagorno-karabakh. the key goal is to assess humanitarian needs in the region, made far worse by a blast at a fuel depot monday which has so far claimed 170 lives. all the while, the mass exodus continues into armenia with 97,700 people now crossing the border. we caught up with our correspondent on the ground, who explained the latest humanitarian impact from the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan. >> the humanitarian situation of the refugees fleeing nagorno-karabakh remains

critical. a lot of the displaced armenians we spoke to after they crossed the border were saying that honestly, their journey is one of the most challenging things they have based -- faced. what should be a one and a half hour journey from nagorno-karabakh to the border is taking up to 30 hours because you have such a flow of traffic going in with so many people rushing to cross into armenia. a lot of these families are coming in their own cars, on the backs of trucks or evacuation buses and bringing their entire lives with them. earlier, we saw a family in a tractor with all of their belongings hanging off the side of the tractor. we also see families of nine people in a 4-cedar car. it gives you the idea of the sheer panic in which they fled nagorno-karabakh to get to the border. many are saying once they reach armenia, the nightmare does not end there. there are many humanitarian

groups helping out, registering them, handing out food, drinks, blankets. the main issue right now in the main registration point is that they are reaching full capacity, and hotels are fully booked. hotels are crammed, so a lot of people are arriving exhausted but end up having to spend the night outside or in their cars because there is simply no room. one hotel owner told us and family arrived in the middle of the night but because there were no rooms available, they ended up sleeping in the hotel corridor and hotel lobby, so very tragic scenes. a lot of them find it difficult to tell their story without bursting into tears. you can see the suffering and trauma. despite them appreciating how much the locals are helping them, they do say, what is this humanitarian aid to us? it does not matter anymore because we have already lost everything. they are indeed mourning the

loss of their homeland. for authorities here, the issue remains the same. how will they handle the influx of refugees? these families are coming all day and all night, so they are trying to find solutions, but the main question remains -- will armenia be ready to take in all of them? >> devastating situation. armenia has meanwhile asked the world court to order azerbaijan to withdraw all its troops from civilian establishments in nagorno-karabakh and to facilitate the access for the united nations. since that conflict began, the armenian diaspora around the world has been drumming up support. more than twice as many ethnic armenians are currently living outside the country as opposed to within it. they often feel victim to another campaign to erase their identity and history. >> showing strength in numbers, far from their ancestral homeland, these members of the

armenian diaspora in beirut gathered outside the azerbaijani embassy on thursday. they were protesting what they called yet another ethnic cleansing, this time in nagorno-karabakh. >> they stole our land. we will keep fighting until the end. armenians across the whole world have the will and will keep fighting for their rights. we won't stop until we get our land back. >> quickly, the protests took a violent turn with lebanese police using tear gas to disperse demonstrators. more than 2/3 of the global armenian community of 10 million people live outside the borders of armenia and send more than 2 billion u.s. dollars in remittances every year. around the world like here in paris, the diaspora has been collecting money for ethnic armenians for nagorno-karabakh fleeing the enclave and staging protests to draw attention to their cause. they had a france's right wing

party heated their call. >> what brings us together this evening is the requirement and necessity, the duty to stand up to defend our brothers, to defend armenia. >> on sunday in brussels, a group will be holding a rally to denounce what it calls human rights abuses and demand sanctions on azerbaijani officials. >> chaos is a word which has long accompanied russia's wagner mercenary group. under the command of former leader yevgeny prigozhin, they were at the front lines of russia's invasion of ukraine capturing the eastern city of bakhmut in the war's bloodiest battle. then a disgruntled prigozhin led an aborted mutiny in june before he was killed. vladimir putin has now tossed a

wagner commander -- task a wagner commander with taking charge of volunteer units in ukraine. >> i would like to start the meeting by talking to you. at the last meeting, we talked about the fact that you will start to deal with falling well until -- volunteer units. you were in the unit for more than a year. is that right? >> yes. >> you know what it is. how it works. you know what issues need to be resolved in advance so that combat is better and more successful. >> slovakia is holding an early parliamentary election on saturday in a key test that could change the country's course away from kyiv and towards moscow.

the vote puts the populist form of the prime minister against the liberal pro-western party. the leftist party had campaigned on a clear pro-russia ticket and anti-american message, vowing to withdraw support from neighboring ukraine. for more on what to expect from the vote, we earlier headed to bratislava with our correspondent. >> robert v cho and his supporters and his politicians have made it clear that their stance on russia is very different from the uniform line so far on the whole of the european union. they want an end to the war. they are making it clear that they foresee potential major concessions on the part of ukraine, and they appear to be laying at least a portion of the blame for the conflict at the door of ukraine, so if he wins

tomorrow, that causes a major headache in european capitals. it causes a major headache for the european union, and the question is -- if he is subsequently able to form a government, what that means for the line on russia because slovakia is not the only country where questions are arising. we see hungary where the prime minister is questioning or at least not throwing his full weight behind the european line and indeed, even in austria from where we traveled today, the party ahead in the polls also wants to take a drastically different line on russia if it wins elections next year. right now, it appears as though the two front runners are neck and neck too much in the polls. his is not entirely clear who will win, and regardless of who does win, it is not clear if they will be able to form a

government because the political spectrum here is highly fragmented. there could be as many as 20 parties that enter parliament, so tomorrow is one major step in a story of the political situation here. other steps will follow, but certainly that liberal party, a stark counterbalance that is pledging to continue to tow the official line on the european union and of those powerful european union countries that want to take a continued hard line on russia and where there appears to be a continuation of the standoff of the conflict in ukraine going forward. >> nonetheless, nato says whoever does take the reins in slovakia, they are confident they can convince them to carry on providing aid to ukraine. as eu leaders gathered in malta

to discuss how best to cope with the mediterranean migrant crisis, the roots keep coming -- the boats keep coming. almost 1000 people drowned trying to make passage to europe just this summer. ngl's on the front line are patrolling the sea, trying to prevent more loss of life. >> another overloaded boat, another rescue. the vessel picks up 61 migrants floating 2005 km -- 25 kilometers off the coast of libya. the united nations children's agency says that in three months, almost 1000 people died or went missing in the attempt to make the crossing from north africa to europe. >> we saw a number of children

and adults die this summer. the mediterranean has become an cemetery. >> the united nation blames what it calls a defective migration system, but the sheer numbers are overwhelming. more than 180,000 people arrived in southern europe i see this year. 100,000 of those landed in italy, and 70% of those came to the tiny island of lent producer. it cannot cope, especially after a recent spell of fine weather saw a surge in arrivals. while the boats keep coming, the united nations refugee agency says states should be stepping up rescue efforts. >> saving lives at sea and providing humanitarian assistance is one of the most basic obligations of humanity, and those performing these

operations are helping in good faith and should not be penalized for do so. >> germany is funding search and rescue efforts while italy has prosecuted the organizations. rights groups are pleading with eu countries to cooperate on mediterranean controls. >> at least 52 people have been killed after a bomb blast at a birthday celebration for the prophet muhammad. nearly 70 others were wounded. take a listen to this report. >> what began as a celebration turned into a horror scene. she and skullcap lay strewn on the ground near the mosque where

a suicide bomber killed dozens and wounded scores more. this witness was one of the lucky ones. >> i was passing near the rally when the blast happened. i don't know why or how it happened because i lost consciousness after the blast. i was scared, too. >> the victims had gathered to celebrate the birth of the prophet mohammed. another double blast further north hit another mosque a few hours later. one of the explosions was so strong it made the roof of the mosque collapsed, killing several and trapping others in the rubble before they were pulled down by rescuers. the regions bordering afghanistan have been the target of attacks in recent months and years by islamist militants seeking to overthrow the pakistani government and impose strict sharia law.

>> teetering on the brink -- could the united states government be set for another partial shutdown? just two days are left until the deadline. congress is struggling to reach a deal, and without it, agencies with cease to operate, national parks would close, and salaries would be suspended. for federal employees and staff. >> they will be a shutdown because at this point, there is no time to have another bill passed, and there is simply not the votes. when you look at the vote, it was expected to fail because some of the hard-line republicans have said they were against extending -- basically, doing that stopgap for several weeks. what we did not expect was how many of them voted against kevin mccarthy, their own leader. 21 of them voted against instead of what we were expecting, which was around seven or eight. so it is a huge blow to kevin

mccarthy. it means there's going to be a huge shutdown, and it also puts kevin mccarthy in danger and puts the house in a weaker position to negotiate on a possible deal because at the same time, the senate has actually already pretty much agreed to a bipartisan deal that would extend funding for about six weeks. they came together, republicans and democrats. the question is -- will kevin mccarthy risk his position and bring this to the vote in the house? because if it is a bipartisan bill, you will have democrats voting for it and probably some republicans who want to avert the shutdown, but the question is -- will mccarthy do that? if he does that, there is a clear possibility from hard-line republicans that they will bring his leadership in jeopardy and force a vote on ousting the speaker of the house, so he is really in a very difficult situation. the question now is how long

that shutdown is going to last. >> we will have all the effects, possibly economically, of that shutdown coming in a few months. first, police in a southern for -- southern french port city are looking for a gunman who shot two people dead thursday evening. they believe the shooting is connected to warring drug gangs and is just the most recent fatal attack in a city that has seen violence from drug gangs rise this year. >> the latest shooting happened in the middle of a busy street, captured clearly by security cameras on a thursday evening. an armed man climbs out of a car and takes aim at a group of three men. in front of several witnesses, he shot two of them dead and left the third injured. residents were caught in the crossfire, like this man who luckily was not at home when bullets hit his house.

>> the bullet went through the window and fell to the ground. if i had been at home, there would have been another death for sure. >> this shop owner was just closing up for the night as the attack began. >> i suddenly heard a bang, bang. i lowered myself on the ground. >> the shooting has upset this normally peaceful part of marseilles. >> it is shocking when you know the people in the neighborhood. you would never think things would get so crazy. >> they used to stick to another neighborhood, but that's not enough for them. >> the victims of thursday's gun attack were known to police. investigators have not said yet if there is a link to drug trafficking, but it bears all the hallmarks of gang violence. >> it is true that we are used

to score-settling killings in neighborhoods well known for drug selling, but it is not like that now. >> the shooter and his accomplices fled in the car which was later found burned out. police have officially opened an investigation into gang-related murder. so far this year, more than 40 people have been killed in suspected gang violence in marseilles. >> turning our eyes to the world of business, all the talk, of course, about a potential u.s. government shutdown. we have heard everything politically, but of course, there is bound to be some form of economic fallout. what can you tell us? >> for sure, and this really depends how long this shutdown lasts. it is difficult to predict that. a short one will not wreck the economy, but millions of americans' lives will be disrupted by it in some way. firstly, those several one

million people on the payroll, as they go, we are paying for the duration of the stoppage. all other citizens who depend on services including benefits could be affected. >> americans are bracing themselves for another possible government shutdown that could go into force at midnight on sunday. the effects of a shutdown would be far-reaching and affect ordinary americans the hardest. millions of federal employees and military service members with stop receiving salary until funding resumes, which includes active duty military members who would still be required to work and multiple federal services would be closed or suspended such as courts, national parks and museums, small business loans and military recruitment. the domestic travel economy could lose as much as $140 million a day. the u.s. will not shut down entirely. other services will be kept running by alternative sources

of funding. these include social security, food stamps, criminal prosecutions, and congress and the white house. shutdowns can be costly to the economy. according to the congressional budget office, $3 billion in gdp was lost as a result of the 2019 shutdown. goldman sachs estimates a shutdown would reduce economic growth by .2% until the government reopens. rating agency moody's says a shutdown would also hurt the country's credit. >> auto workers in the u.s. have again expanded their strike against the detroit three carmakers with 7000 people to join the picket line this friday. the united auto workers union says walkouts will now affect an additional general motors plant in lansing, michigan, plus a ford factory in chicago.

stellantis, on the other hand, is being spared further industrial action with the union citing significant progress in negotiations. ford has hit back at the move, saying between 300000 and 500,000 workers could be laid off due to the strikes. it has accused the union of holding a deal hostage to the fate of electric battery plants. the uaw is demanding a 40% pay rise and other developments. the union chief said he still had faith in fulfilling those demands. >> to be clear, negotiations haven't broke down. we are still talking with all three companies, and i'm still very hopeful that we can reach a deal that reflects the incredible sacrifices and contributions our members have made over the last decade, but i also know what we got at the bargaining table depends on the power we built on the job. it is time we use that power.

>> consumer price increases in the euro zone slowed to their lowest rate in almost two years in september after growing 5.2% annually in august. inflation came in at 4.3% year on year in september, even lower than analyst predictions. meanwhile, the core inflation rate which disregards volatile food and energy prices, also fell to 4.5 percent this month. the european central bank has been raising interest rates to get inflation down to 2% with pain being felt across the euro zone. now for the final word on wall street for the week, stocks wobbled on u.s. shutdown fears while investors also digested the implications of a u.s. inflation report for the federal reserve's interest rate policy, the dow jones losing almost .5%. the s&p 500 and nasdaq wrapped up their worst months of the year. the s&p down .72% and the nasdaq

managing to climb up .2%. paris prosecutors have confirmed they are investigating europe's richest person over financial transactions involving a russian oligarch. the prosecution office says a preliminary probe was opened last year which does not necessarily imply wrongdoing. the french newspaper reported that the russian businessmen acquired real estate with a loan via one of his companies. the report ported a financial intelligence employee who said the transaction could have been aimed at concealing the origins of the funds use. we will be keeping an eye on that. quickly second richest man in the world, but not necessarily in any trouble just yet. that is all the news we have for now.

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