principals catherine norris trend reporting that from stockholm. let's get a reminder of our top stories are from twenty four in a break withh the pastt thehe united arab emirates and bahrain signed deals with israel normalizing ties. president donald trump says more arab states will follow suit. rights groups expressed anger is an appeals court in algeria sentences the journalist college the ready to two years in prison for his coverage of last year's protests. and in the latest sign of his recovery the poison kremlin critic alexei navalny posts a photo on social media saying he's being breathing unaided. time now for a check of the top business news stories at kate moody said hi that kate let us begin in united kingdom because the unemployment rate has edged to its highest level in two years and there are warnings that it could even double but by the end of the year yet nearly seven hundred thousand jobs have been cut since march. despite the government sponsored a furlough program which supported nearly ten million people at its height now the g

"france 24's" catherine norris is down at the courthouse. what happened in court on day three? >> hi, laura. it was a much awaited day in court because we have so far been hearing from the men suspected of being an accomplice to the january 20155 attacks, rather than mererely providing logistical supupport. he is accused of beieing the rit hand man of the attacker who held people hostage and killed people in a supermarket on the east of paris as part of those three-day rampage of attacks before being gunned down by police. the man himself denies the charges. he says he is not radicalized. he says one shouldn't kill people, one shouldn't kill innocent people. he condemned the attacks on charlie hebdo and the kosher supermarket saying the only man died in january 2015. so trying to disassociate himself from these charges of being an accomplice. but he is by far the highest profile sususpect. the three men p physically carad out the attack were killed in shootout with the police. one shortcoming of the trial i they were ononly people who ovided logistical support o or accused of p