by broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is arts international and john holmes with us. now public services have ground to a halt across france during a nationwide strike over labor reforms and up to thirty percent of long haul flights have been affected and many schools were closed on thursday in march say and lie on thousands of people took to the streets and in paris the unrest escalated into clashes with police. her. new only brought up one of you know we are not here to be violent we are here to protest democratically against the liberal politics of macro wanted by the car because without a market we disagree with the governments we can't accept this reforms that's why we are always here with us who's the most like a for is the promises he made i think it's absolutely not been fulfilled. during the rallies in paris protesters threw rocks at officers who responded with water cannons or to use charlie devinsky was at one of the flashpoints for. thousands of people who have been marching in paris only stay over the national strikes they couldn't sing here now about

the government is facing increasing criticism as promised recovery funds continue to face delays john holmes said this report from one of the camps. it's not easy getting ready for work in the morning when you live in a tent that's how it's been for six months for patti since her home was damaged in last september's earthquake she has her few possessions with her. i haven't really slept in six months we take turns who's on watch who is then we look for a chain to close the gate we use ropes there's people who try to get n. a handful of camps like patti's adulthood around the capital thousands of others were damaged tiles is living with relatives or paying rent that they can ill afford elsewhere while they wait for the more than three hundred fifty million dollar reconstruction budget to kick in much of it hasn't done yet and that's partly because the city committee set up to administer the funds led by local lawmakers was plagued by irregularities for experts on the advisory panel resigned in protest among them. all that in this moment i can say that the money has been managed with the desir

the world oceans summit the aim is to come up with ways to use maritime resources sustainably as john holmes reports the location of the meeting itself is a cautionary tale of financial gains trumping environmental concerns. for the delegates gathering to discuss how best to save the seas in the world ocean summit is a textbook example of what not to do in the very town that they flew into cancun it attracted seven million international visitors just last year but financial success has meant abandoning the principles of sustainability at the summit is trying hard to promote. also changing the way the territory west conformed into a touristic area really brought lots of problems because for example we started to lose these natural barriers for the natural he says there's not only the coral reefs but also the mangroves and what do you do this transformation you cannot go back easily. mangroves have been ripped out to make way for development it reflects a global trend more than thirty percent of the unique trees crucial for storing carbon dioxide have been destroyed worldwide cancun's lagoon a

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strong evidence some of those arrested were subjected to arbitrary tension and rights violations john holmes has more from mexico city. it was a case that horrified mexico forty three students pulled off of buses by corrupt mexican police working with a criminal gang they were never seen alive again for months after the capital's main avenue reverberated to describe. alive you took them alive we want them back now authorities are accused not just of failing the students but the suspects in the case. a new u.n. report says there were strong indications that officials thirty pool of those the attorney general's office detained and. the detainees denounced in the detailed and consistent why the torture that they were exposed to beatings as fixation with plastic bags electric shocks waterboarding torture threats to rattle their wives and daughters. it puts more doubt on investigators findings mostly based on suspect confessions that the students were killed and burned in this rubbish dump many believe those conclusions were rushed out in. hope putting a full stop on the controversy but the case

global summit united effort of business leaders conservationists and government before it's too late john holmes now does it a coup nearly a million people are without power after a heavy dumping of snow in the northeast of the united states it's the second storm to hit the east coast in less than a week more than eight hundred thousand people and during widespread electricity cuts some of been without power now for almost a week heavy snow and icy roads of four state officials to close schools canceled or delayed thousands of flights across the region time for the sport now his job. thanks very much north and south korea will march separately friday's opening ceremony for the winter paralympics north korea we making its games debut in china but the respective teams have opted not to replicate the joint procession seen last month lympics the north korea taking part a toll if still being viewed as a major step forward rob mcbride reports. a build up event to boost support for the paralympics games that often struggle in the shadow of the more popular olympics they follow but amid the olympic good

the wilson center think tank in washington thanks very much for speaking to us so we seeing in john holmes report there from mexico city the main contenders in this election but could you tell us a little bit more about why this election is so important to mexicans one of their hopes and expectations from it. sure i mean this is the largest election in mexican history in terms of the number of seats that are up for you know election in terms of many governors full renewal of the congress and of course the president and really you know what's interesting about this is just that for mexicans it's the same issues as always there are high levels of violence in the country that was something that was expected to have declined during this possible but it did not there on record to have on pace to have more homicides during this past six your administration and the previous one so that remains a major issue and then the perennial issue of poverty inequality in mexico is also at the top of the list topping that off is just a distaste in a sense that none of the candidates none of the politicians t

oliver wendell holmes and john futch could not have been more different in background and personality. pragmaticad a philosophy grounded in thinking. elevated individual consciousness at the arbitrator of duty. this was the common thread in how soldiers thought. it did not create a common experience. soldiering assumed a highly andvidualized form varying they time and place of the war. toward the twisted soldier actions and thoughts and convoluted in contradictory ways. theith a panel from two to truth, we are able to ask three men, how did you cope with the physical strain and emotional pressures of having to survive in the ranks? the true veteran would stand up and would say i did my whole duty as far as i knew it. thank you. [applause] so we have about five minutes, but not a lot of time for questions. we can talk more after. any questions? the soldier from north carolina who had deserted, was he executed after being caught? >> his name was john futch. he and 11 other soldiers were captured in scottsville virginia, which is a beautiful little town. they were sent when they got capt

i would like to welcome up representatives eleanor holmes norton, and represent john lewis, and represent john deutsche. we have so privileged that the next speaker is lending us his voice today. ladies and gentlemen, award-winning poet joseph green. >> how is everybody doing today? i am honored to be here. my name is joseph green, a and i'm a poet, activist and educator in the youth program coordinator at split this rock, a national art arts and social justice program, but i am not only that, but i am a black man. i am a father, and i have been charged with the mission of creating space for young people in a city that has been plagued with gun violence for far too long. i see before me today a generation of youth pissed off and ready to take on the real issue issues of our time. and i know that each of you is knowledgeable enough to understand that america's gun violence epidemic did not start in the suburbs, and it is not isolate nod the schools. you know that organizations like black lives matter and the black youth project and dozens of others have been fighting for gun violence in pl

holmes note -- norton. representatives ted deutch and john lewis. that the nextged speaker is lending us his voice today. ladies and gentlemen, joseph green. >> and is everybody doing today? i am honored to be here. i am joseph green and i'm an educator and use program that,nator and not only but a black man and a father and i have been charged with a mission of creating space for young people who have been plagued by gun violence for too long and i see a generation of ready to take on the realist issues of our time. i know that each of you is and this ise enough not isolated to our schools. you know that organizations like black lives matter and dozens of others have been fighting for gun violence -- against gun where the hasaces not been levels of external support like we have had here today. does not coment out of the suburbs and speak to toxictic violence and masculinity and looks to protect some and not others, dean militarizing the public, but not the police, then it will not potential is only realized, if we choose to support this together is the only way forward. asked to do a poem and this is de

speaker, are representative jamie -- jamie raskin, representative eleanor holmes norton, representative ken deutsch and representative john lewis. [cheering] we are so privileged that our next speaker is lending us his voice today. ladies and gentlemen, award-winning poet joseph green. how is everybody doing today? [cheering] be here.red to my name is joseph green. i'm a poet, an activist, educator in the youth program cordon aider, -- coordinator. i am not only that. i am a black man. i am a father. have been charged with the mission of creating space for young people in a city that has been plagued with gun violence for far too long. i see before me today a generation of youth this off and ready to take on the real issues of our time. is i know that each of you knowledgeable enough to understand that americans gun violence epidemic did not start in the suburbs, and it is not isolated to our school. you nor organizations like black lives matter and the black youth project and dozens of others have been fighting for gun violence in places where the outrage are not afforded the same acknowledgment of their humanity or leve

john roberts. thank you very much. for more reaction to the imminent departure of the woman politico is calling trump's translator. let's bring in josh holmes, former chief of staff to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. josh, always good to see you. i want to start with hope hicks and john roberts talked about. when you talk about someone inside trump's inner circle as hope hicks. what impact does this have. >> it obviously has a big impact. she had the salute trust of the put of the united states. and i think by all accounts was one of the few people within the administration who had the ability to provide complete candor to the president. and influence his decisions one way or another. so there is a loss on that. but, you know, i have come long enough in government to find out that there is no totally irreplaceable staff, right in the irreplaceable member here is always the president or the principle. so they will get through it. but there is no question it's a big loss. >> harris: you know i was looking at the list last hour on outnumbered. we were ticking down hot people who have been in that seat. anthony scaramucci, showers, so o

john bolton. li--ttdolein the george. ws. aa ng because he's a little bit of a firte of a bomb thrower. he was a protege of the slate senator jesse holmes of north carolina. he was a recess appointment toe thn. he was very critical of the u.n. then he left that post when e recess appointment would have to have been renewed in a formal nomination made becausgotoe se s nfirmation when the docrats took over. >> woodruff: he served a little over a year. >> a little over a year. druff: in that position. t we have been wha hearing and reading about this, he has been heading up ati political committee to raise money for conservative causes. >> a super pac that has been raising money. the last expenditure just a couple of days ago. he is a very strong voice in thi conser wing of the party. he was at the american enterprise institute for a while. this is -- it's going to beeeows gotoc e l.ndg stineived in the pomuign clicy >> woodruff: i aemember th number of leading republican figuin theolicy arena did not want jo pgn forhnn ed. his name was tommast we anas ch. >> t y was seen a little bit outhasg rithe main stream. also another interesting poi

holmes, in a scotland yard of the 19th century. i know the telegraph playing that up as well. there is the rhetoric that is miles apart. john is the actual evidence that russia did this? insn't scotland yard weigh that they did it? john: they will argue that this nerve agent could only be level,d at a military sponsored by a government. that russia is one of the few countries that could do this. targeting a russian citizen. they are as certain as you possibly can be that this was a russian state directed operation. they will argue that they can't give all the details away because of national security. you are right. we never know 100%. the russians are contesting that. show us proof. across party lines, all lines of government in the u.k., there seems to be certainty about this. we are seeing that from allies in europe and the u.s. as well. there is very little doubt that russia was responsible. tom: with all your experience, what will be the moscow response? tat, whatever the number of bodies is? or even further to show who is boss? latter.obably the more expulsion of diplomats is a given. in the last three years, russia h

. >> john who first exposed problems at the company for "the wall street journal" is now writing a book that will be the basis of the movie with jennifer lawrence starring as holmesholmes dropped out of stanford at 19 to start theranos. investors loved it. by 32 she was the youngest female self-made billionaire in the world. former senators, secretaries of state and defense joined the theranos board, including defense secretary james mattis, who served on the board until he joined the trump administration. then the bottom started to fall out. a government report raised questions about the california lab. >> i feel devastated that we did not catch and fix these issues faster. >> the company's labs in california and arizona were shut down in 2016, but the company is still operating. in a settlement with the s.e.c., theranos says holmes will pay a $500,000 fine and will not be eligible to serve as a director or officer of a publicly traded company for ten years. she's also returning nearly $19 million shares in stock but is still ceo. theranos independent director said in a statement the company is pleased to be bringing this matter to a close and looks forward to a