alain juppe and francois fillon vie to become the next french president. they squared off last night in a televised debate ahead of sunday's conservative primary. the foiled terrorist plot, the prosecutor says the five terror suspects had been guided from islamic state from iraq and syria via encrypted messages. and close to 100,000 people are forced from their homes as fire threatens-in israel. it is suggested that terrorists are behind the blame. coming up, we will take a look at business news, black friday in the united states. we will also see what happens in the "press review," with news from colombia about the renegotiated peace accord. nanticoke we begin in france with a final debate he held last night in the runoff french election. alain juppe and francois fillon squared off to become the conservative candidate and perhaps the president of france. delano desousa gives us a look at the intense point of the debate. >> a handshake to mark the start of a heated clash. alain juppe wasted no time in calling his rival too extreme, over a plan to pay publi

the favorite was alain juppe. alain juppe has been in damage control for all of the campaign. now he is obliged to go on the attack, which is not his nature. it is going to be very difficult unless something drastic happens during the debate on thursday or we learn something scandalous around francois fillon. he will win the primary. annette: whoever does at the end of the day when, it is a person who is going to be standing against marine le pen, the leader of the national front movement. marc: those are the odds right now. there are two rounds of presidential elections. there are lots of candidates, but in the run-up you only have two. just like in the primary. according to all the polls -- annette: if we can trust them. exactly right. if we can trust them, marine le pen is a shoo-in for the runoff. the most likely opponent is the conservative candidate, and the winner should be the conservative candidate because marine le pen still has the so-called glass ceiling, whereby she would not be able to get over 40%, 45% maximum of the vote. lots of eyes are on this primary becaus

genie: campaigning continues between francois fillon and alain juppe. at theirll take a look policies. the two foreign -- the two prime minister's will share common ground, but when it comes to foreign policy and the economy, they are worlds apart. our correspondent explains. >> francois fillon, a staunch conservative, and alain juppe, a center-right moderate. they want to increase working hours, abolished wealth tax, and increase the retirement age. but francois fillon has taken his policies a step farther. an admirer of margaret thatcher, he wants to cut half a million public-sector jobs, whereas alain juppe wants to scrap 200,000. alain juppe wants to bring back a 39 hour work week. illon wants to bring it to 48. when it comes to foreign policy, the two candidates are worlds apart. he wants to cooperate with the kremlin on the syrian wall and work together on the ship -- on the syrian war and work together with bashar al-assad to defeat islamic state group. alain juppe assists there will be no times of peace in syria with bashar al-assad in power. to

anchor: alain juppe is fully behind fillon? guest: of course. they agreed on this from the beginning. francois fillon pushed for this primary. after that everybody is behind the winner. anchor: what can we expect for thecois fillon between second round primary on sunday and the first round of the presidential elections in may at how might we see his vision or his message? guest: he continues to explain his program to the french waters. now we have to go back like we did for three years and explain and explain and show that he is best show that it is the best program for france. -- and show that it is the best program for france. we won't be seeing a softer side to francois fillon? we would not change it. i can't explain it in english right now, but one type will be for homosexuals and the other one for heterosexuals. juppe: his win against was outstanding in many ways. is 30%. fillon was the outsider. account for this meteoric rise and massive win? guest: we have said from the beginning it will begin with the debates. meeting people, french peop

fillon and alain juppÉ. they want to abolish wealth tax and increase the retirement age.fillon has taken his policies a step farther. admirer of margaret thatcher, he wants to cut at least half an million public-sector jobs, whereas alain juppÉ wants to scrap 200,000. fillon wants to set the working limit at 48 hours, the maximum authorized i.e. you law -- a uthorized by eu law. when it comes to foreign policy, the two candidates are worlds apart. the mp for paris is for the lifting of sanctions on moscow after it's annexing of crimea -- after its annexing of crimea. he wants to work with bashar al-assad to defeat the islamic state group. condemns the bombardment of aleppo. juppe insists there will be no return to peace in syria with assad him power. -- assad in power. laura: thank you for joining us here on "france 24." why should voters choose friends were feeling -- choose friends what beyond -- choose francois fillon over juppe? >> france are struggling. fillion -- fillon is advocating a profound transformation, a radical transformation of the french society, to get b

alain juppe and francois fillon vie to become the next french president. they squared off last night in a televised debate ahead of sunday's conservative primary. the foiled terrorist plot, the prosecutor says the five terror suspects had been guided from islamic state from iraq and syria via encrypted messages. and close to 100,000 people are forced from their homes as fire threatens-in israel. it is suggested that terrorists are behind the blame. coming up, we will take a look at business news, black friday in the united states. we will also see what happens in the "press review," with news from colombia about the renegotiated peace accord.

lucy: alain juppe, once tipped as a party favorite, is now the outsider for the runoff on sunday. his rival's success was, he said, a surprise. how did mr. fillon do it? .> the personality french people wanted that, someone very serious, very rigorous, and also, he was appointing measures that were very on the right, and that is what was expected by the electors. lucy: it is early days, but for some, this primary contest is an unofficial first round in france's presidential race. the current resident of the elysees palace is so unpopular that few are counting on a socialist candidate even reaching the presidential runoff next may. in a head-to-head race with far right leader marine le pen, alain juppe can probably count on left-wing votes. the question many are asking now is whether francois fillon can do the same. he is more likely to win over some of le pen's target voters, those who don't really agree with her support for gay rights or her plans to pull out of the eu. she has beenhand , doing well in previously left-wing areas with promises of welfare spending and protection fo

francois fillon and alain juppe are former prime ministers. and voters have to choose between fi mr.llon's stringent cuts to extending and mr. -- to public spending and mr. juppe's moderate reforms. lucy williamson reports. lucy: as racing drivers know, the starting position does not determine the race. francois fillon is an amateur driver. he last raced this track in july, and no, he didn't win. here, as in politics, there are risks in going too fast or too slow, and attacking your opponent can be fatal to either party. it says something about this primary contest that the testiest exchange in last night's debate was over abortion, even though neither candidate wants to change the law. mr. juppe demanded that his rival clarify his personal views. "my conscience is my business," mr. fillon said, "and the trial against me is unfair." mr. juppe has presented his opponent as a catholic conservative with appeal on the far right, calling mr. fillon's reviews on the family all but backward. a call for centrists and even left-wing voters to take part

he beat alain juppe. vote. 67% of the he is promising economic reforms and a smaller government here it --and a smaller government. a group of british lawmakers is demanding an agreement with the -- europeans living in the u.k. would be included. , -- message to donald tusk the brexit negotiators for the e.u. have said talks cannot start on any aspect of brexit until the u.k. begins the formal exiting process. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, i am emma chandra. this is bloomberg. julie? julie: looking at some early movers, we are coming off a big holiday shopping weekend. today is still called cyber monday. looking at the online shopping site amazon and ebay, we have a mixed trade. we have amazon trading half a percent lower, ebay almost 1%. digital sales thursday and rose by 18%. it seems the overall theme of shopper traffic is that traffic was up, but the average spending was down. rose by 18%. we are also watching u.s. banks. the

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with almost all the vote counted, francois fillon has easily beaten rival alain juppe, who conceded defeat tonight. fillon wants to reduce immigration to a minimum, slash public sector spending, raise the retirement age from 62 to 65, and extend the standard 35- hour work week. marine le pen, of the far righ"" national front" party, is also running. but incumbent president francois hollande has not said yet if he'll seek a second five-year term on the socialist ticket. >> new york state could soon expand medicaid coverage for treatments specific to transgender youth under 18. read more at pbs.org/newshour. >> stewart: just back from europe, this week singer- songwriter norah jones begins the east coast leg of a tour in support of her latest album. the new songs find her once again at the piano, reminiscent of the work that first propelled her to stardom in 2002. but this time around, jones adds some jazz to the mix. in tonight's signature segment, the newshour's jeffrey brown has this profile. >> ♪ it's a tragedy. ♪ it's a tragedy. >> reporter: norah jones has said when she decided to be a

guest: fillon had 16 percentage points more than a lane juppe -- then a lane juppe -- than alain juppeould be logical if francois fillon won this publication. the firstmost like round of the presidential elections. shown he wille likely face the republican nominee in the runoff in the next election. vonnie: thank you. let's turn to berlin where on color merkel -- where angela -- saysays he will seek she will seek a fourth term. that will make it 16 years if she will win and serve out her full term. is that wise for any country? guest: that is a very good question. doesn't have any limits on the terms by the chancellor. she has several hurdles to overcome. about those.me if popular in all parts of the country? an: that is a key point, she has yet to receive the backing of her bavarian allies. they have been among the most strident critics of her refugee policy. came frome refugees the south, through the north. that is one obvious hurdle. fight thise has to election, which polls suggest she would come first. germany is a coalition system. it is not clear what can a government she could b

to cuts fillon wants public spending by more than 100 billion euros, and alain juppe only around 85 billionfinally, juppe wants to cut the number of public servants by around 250,000, whereas the line wants to cut public servants by -- twice asy as many, half a million people, something juppe things is not credible. anna: thank you for joining us from paris. stick with darren ruane, the head of fixed income at investment wealth. i have pulled up a chart, talking about french election news on the political calendar. i pulled up this chart on the bloomberg. france gives you all kinds of french indicators. this is french employment, mainland and overall. you can see this trough time here, 2009, and the upward trend during the financial crisis. this is one of the big challenges that faces the french economy at the moment. this stubborn unemployment number, just one of the many incoming factors. darren: francois hollande, one of the premises was that he would reduce unemployment significantly from double-digit levels. you look at that chart, it has not happened. that is why it is likely that the

>> if we look up to the first round of the primaries, it appears that that alain juppe would make it, and that nicholas sarkozy would come through th. that has not happened. fillon won the first round, is he on course to win the second round. if he does make it through, that would be surprising. juppe is doing everything he can to undermine the fillon campaign. if he does make it, it would be a worry from the view of marine le pen, she was expecting to come up to mr. juppe or mr. sarkozy. it will be interesting to see how that plays out. >> lots of polls pit mr. juppe against le pen but very few fillon versus le pen. how would fillon do versus le pen? and do you want to trust the polls? >> that's a very important issue, which you raise. we've seep the polls being wrong on brexit, on the u.s. presidential elections. i think fillon, given he has -- i would not say adopted some of the political instances which le pen would have adopted herself, but given he's more right of center than juppe, he poses more of a problem to le pen than juppe would. if the polls are right this time around. a

francois fillon is the favorite to win, which found him more convinci convincing than rival alain juppe. mr. juppe criticized mr. fillon for his russian sympathies. >> translator: i was a bit surprised to see for the first time in the debate, i think, in a french political election the russian head of state chooses his candidate. i'm a little bit surprised. >> mr. fillon signed multiple trade deals with putin between 2007 and 2012 when they both were prime ministers. he's been quick to defend his stance on russia. >> i consider that the policy led over the past four years by francois hollande with respect to russia is absurd and it drives russia, it pushes russia to harden itself to isolate itself and to activate its nationalistic reflexes. >>> we have a political analyst with me to talk more about what to anticipate from the second round in france this weekend. do you agree with the poll that fillon came out stronger? >> i think it was a balanced debate. i watched most of it. it was useful because they were actually talking about policy. and they were giving numbers. it was generally a

he might not have the legacy that alain juppe has, but he reassured the markets. onvery strong the value on the family side. to a certain extent, on the economic standpoint, he wants to make the reforms that france has been long waiting for. he stands a good chance against marine le pen, but let's not put the cart before the horse too early. there are also candidates like emmanuel macron. it is not finished yet. we will see what will happen. francine: how much do you worry about the economy of france? unemployment is high. when you look at labor reforms, some of them have been done by emmanuel macron when he was finance minister. how much more could be done? >> personally i'm not worried about france. i think france has been a sleeping beauty. we've been resilient throughout crisis. we've been trying to protect our safety net. now the problem is, do we want more private led growth? illon wants to make sure that corporate tax goes back to the european union. the idea is to see if we can do some supply-side reforms when we think the man is kicked in. we know demand

fillon: in fact, alain juppe does not really want to change things. he is attached to a system. wants to improve it. he wants to bring modifications. i think these modifications will not enable the nation's recovery. juppe: i want to reinforce the voice of france. i want to reestablish our economic power, our credibility vis-a-vis our partners, particularly germany. from that point on, we are free to make our own choices, and i do not want france to be a vassal either of washington nor moscow. francine: i try to look at the debate as much as possible, chris. it is clear we do not know who, if any of these two, will face marine le pen, and who survives the second round. this is politics in france like we have never seen before. or is it? are we over dramatizing everything with elections because of brexit and trump? thes: it is hard to see french election having such a shock result. although we did say that about trump and brexit. but i do think the general way the mood is going in france is consistent with this global shift in politics that we have seen over the last 12 months, 2

that is why the key message from allen should be -- from alleyne juppe -- itom alain is the only realistic path to victory on sunday. mane are talking about a who was once a prime minister of this country. no one can doubt the fact he has experience. but perhaps not a breath of fresh air that people are last calling for. >> i think that is both his strength and his weakness. one of the reasons they want to vote for him is -- he knows how to do things. he knows how to govern, he knows what he wants to get done in the first day or so. is what we have been seeing in the united kingdom and in the united states is the brexit vote and the donald trump victory. as such that is unlikely to play out. he is trying to counter that with a theme that is a breath of fresh air. governmentted the before france followed landes -- before france holland -- before fracois hollande. that is going to be a key issue as we move forward into 2017. anchor: reporting their from france. president barack obama left europe in what was probably the last time in his capacity as head of state. earlier today he spoke with

francine: there's a tv debate between francois fillon and alain juppe tonight. is talking about, i don't know if it is hatred, but the anger against bankers or banking systems. in italy, it is different. i guess the italian families have held so much of these bonds, and it is a different relationship in italy. elisa: i think for the italians, it began to bite last year when there were a couple of small bail ins, then it hit home. aside, itpaschi hadn't effectively need in any bailout, as we seen in the u k and other countries. francine: how can you be sure, .imon -- this is a catch-22 how can you be sure the european union would change the rules if we haven't had any indication so far? merkel is going up for election in seven months. simon: the behavior in terms of, times like this we always like to quote dennis varoufakis. he comes up with very quotable quotes. the rules change on a sixpence. they make them up as they go along. that is not a criticism. you've got an evolving unitary system. without fiscal and political deepening, that is a problem in france and

francois fillon won the first round of the republican primary by 16 percentage points over alain juppethey will face off against each other in next sunday's runoff. former french president nicolas sarkozy has been knocked out of the race. a competency hearing is scheduled today for the man accused of killing nine black churchgoers in charleston, south carolina. the hearing is closed. in that june 2015 attack at the emmanuel baptist episcopal church. than 2600 more journalists and analysts in over 100 20 countries, i am mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. david: crude is surging as t dollar is falling. under economic growth president trump. great have you here with us. we saw the markets breakup area what was the catalyst for this? -- breakup. what was the catalyst for this? guest: you have energy shares of the most, about 2%. a hit that weng are nearing the supply limit there. and we're seeing the laggards in the week after trump got elected doing better. these were victimized by the rise in treasury yields. back down,elds are so the utility companies are taking a bit as well. that is po

in order to do that, i will need everyone's support. >> alain juppe was quick to so solidarity -- alain juppe was quick to show solidarity, looking ahead to make's general election. worry, --illon in needn't worry. >> i wish him the very best for his campaign and the victory next may. fillon campaigned on promises of slashing spending immigration. polls suggest the 62-year-old has a high chance of winning the french presidency. his challenge may come from far right leader marine le pen. current president francois whether has a few weeks to run for reelection before the socialist primaries are held in january. genie: let's take a closer look at reaction to francois fillon's win in france. it is said that he was -- that stance won voters over. was ahink what he posed conservative party that is not apologize for its values and ideas. what he proposed compared to alain juppe was to take his ideas to its logical conclusion. on sovereignty, the tough thing for the french is not to change. genie: they are talking about newly elected conservative nominee, francois fillon. carl brown takes a loo