the eiffel tower wasn't always as popular as it is today when engineer gustaf eiffel had built for the 1889 world's fair artists and intellectuals considered it common and lonely early on blow our ironically described it as a truly tragic street lamp that was a broad sided eiffel's industrial building methods which contrasted sharply with the historical beauty of the city. the initial plan was to tear the tower down after 2 decades. protect. explains why it's still standing today. for at some point got the idea that the. the tower could be used as a place for a radio antenna the french army was really interested and began experimenting and transmitting they made the tower strategically important that's why they kept it. impressive views can be had from all over the town especially from the 2nd and 3rd platforms you can see many christian sites from here. including the louvre and the dome of les invalid. dabs made the eiffel tower one of the world's best loved landmarks with more than $7000000.00 visitors each year you need to pay to get in tickets cost as much as $25.00 euros a

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in at the paris world fair as well as the eiffel tower visitors also caught their 1st glimpse of what are the least in colorful towns up until then europeans had only known the white variety. but the tour mali acts nursery managed to cross the common white water lily with exotic varieties from that time on you saw them in pink red blue and so on when monet saw them at the fair he was fascinated it inspired him to cultivate his garden he plays. it's now late morning and the sun has awakened all the water lilies tourists are crowding around to get the obligatory snapshots. near the pond is the sea of color that is money's 1st garden an ornamental one the painter gave his gardeners precise instructions about what should bloom where he sat isn't quite so strict but he does try to keep money spirit alive relate to shellfish on the flower beds are planted in such a way that they complement each other visually similar to how a painter mixes his colors in a palette before he starts his work before but it will feel. as john murray of his own ever thought of setting up his own easel here. he sa

landmarks we start with one that encompasses the very essence of france and the city of light the eiffel tower in paris. and taking up some slack at the end of the show get ready for the amazing feats of a stony and slack planner. well she's one of the most compelling composers working today london born rebecca saunders who lives and works here in berlin and her competent compositions turned the whisper the shimmer and funder of sounded to something tangible and she invites us to focus on minute creations of timber and of course the symbiotic relationship between musician and instrument challenging to play and fascinating to listen to.

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. >> the eiffel tower dinner and that was a very good beginning.ldn't ask for better weather or a more beautiful vacation. next year we'll be hosting in the united states, so that will be great. very good. that'll be great. we'll do a good job. but so far so good. the weather is perfect. everybody's getting along. i think we'll accomplish a lot this weekend. and i look forward to it. thank you for having me. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, press. >> thank you. >> all right. so just a few words there from president trump, exchanging some pleasantries with the french president emmanuel macron, talking about the u.s. hosting next year for the group of seven meeting and weather and all of that. but of course they have some very serious topics to cover over the next three days. this was just a working lunch, a greeting between the u.s. president and the president of the host country. as more headlines come out, we'll bring them to you. the president en route to france mentioned that if france went through with this pote

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mr trump clearly enjoyed having dinner at the eiffel tower, he referenced that.t get into any of the policy details which divide these two men in these two countries. perhaps a more useful guide in regard to mr trump's mood was a statement he gave just before he got on the plane to fly to france where he said, look, i'm not happy with how europe is behaving in terms of trade and if need be we will put tariffs on french wine among other european goods. already donald tusk of the european union has said, look, if that happens we will retaliate. the backdrop to this is that donald trump is farfrom happy about the trading relationship between europe and the us, the trading relationship between china and the us, it will be one of the big issues to play out across the summit. all of the european leaders to a lesser or greater extent have said that trump's approach to this trade war with china and nascent trade war with europe is not helping the global economy. translation: tensions, particularly trade tensions are bad for everyone. we need to de—escalate and stabilise

mr trump clearly enjoyed having dinner at the eiffel tower. he referenced that.y of the policy details, which we now divide these two men and divide these two countries. and perhaps, a more useful guide to mr trump's mood, with regards to the biggest issue, trade, it is a statement that he gave just before he got on the to france, where he said, look, i'm not happy with how europe is behaving in terms of trade and if need be we'll put tariffs on french wine among other european goods, and already donald tusk of the european union has said, look, if that happens we will retaliate. so the backdrop to this is that donald trump is farfrom happy about the trading relationship between the us and europe and the trading relationship between china and the us, it is going to be one of the big issues to play out across the summit. and, actually, on trade, all of the european leaders, to a lesser or greater extent, had said trump's approach to this trade war with china and the trade with europe is not helping the global economy. for instance, here is the host himself, emmanu

a special relationship is a special relationship and we all remember the eiffel town dinner —— eiffel towerto talk about and we could not have asked for better weather or a beautiful location and next year we will be hosting it in the united states, so that will be very good. that will be great. a good job, but so that will be great. a good job, but so far so good. the weather is perfect, the guest list is fantastic, everybody is getting along and people accomplish a lot this weekend thank you for having us. this weekend thank you for having us. thank you. thank you very much. ido us. thank you. thank you very much. i do not think they are going to be provided an opportunity to take questions, it wasjust provided an opportunity to take questions, it was just a statement. interesting, the tone another the you're on's remarks. very careful not to say anything that might provoke the president into one of his spontaneous off the cuff comments —— president macron. we do not hear anything from the present to suggest that he was following up on taxing frenchmen, he added that little provocation to

he chased the enemy over the eiffel tower and was able to claim that victory, and to get out of paris, he flew low and avoided the anti-aircraft fire. now, the way he told us, and has told the press and everybody else before his death in 2013, this helped to reenergize the resistance. gave hope to the french people, so much so that the french ambassador to the united states awarded him the legion of honor in a wonderful ceremony held at the national d-day memorial in bedford, virginia. my question is in your research for this book, did you find any documentation of this stint? >> no, i didn't. and i'll tell you why which is that the majority -- because i was focusing -- well, first of all, it's a terrific story. it really is. and it's very common in the sense of people getting rescued by the french, pilots, or airplane personnel getting rescued by the french. but my research for this book really focussed on normandy. so i went to two archives in normandy, the provincial archive and then a special archive that is a memorial to d-day. i wouldn't have picked this up unless i had gone som

we all remember the eiffel tower dinner and that was a very good beginning, and we have some really great things to talk about. >> the economy and the global situation. and fix the situation in terms of trade because i think it is a great part of the work. >> we saw that, we heard that, talking about a very special relationship, a very good relationship and the president macron also all smiles as they met for tonight's working dinner. where do you see things headed at the g7? can we expect real cooperation? >> well, the g7 leaders have had a chance to get a measure of donald trump in previous summits. they know what they can expect in terms of big outsized threats from over in washington or by twitter, but a more conciliatory trump in person. this is their opportunity to flatter him and also give him some tough talk behind closed doors. one of the things that president macron said there was that perhaps the european economy could be improved by tax cut, and that's music to president trump's ears. senior administration officials told us before trump headed to paris that they were going to

we all remember the eiffel tower dinner. that was a very good beginning. we have some really great things to talk about. >> we talk about the economy global situation, how to fix the situation in terms of trade and standards. i think -- >> the two leaders and the other g7 leaders will be having dinner tonight. tomorrow is a very busy day with working sessions and an economic forum that president trump and a his aides were pushing for. one of the way aides were able to make this more palatable to the president was to add this forum. the president really feels like the main topic throughout the weekend should be the economy and trade. that's one of the reasons this forum is happening tomorrow. back to you. >> pamela brown, thank you so much. >> joining me right now, a cnn political analyst, and patrick healy, a political editor for "the new york times" and cnn political analyst. patrick, let me begin with you. before the president left for the g-7, he threatened to tax french wines and then he sat down with france's president macron there at lunch. and then

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we all remember the eiffel tower dinner, that was a good beginning.at things to talk about, and couldn't ask for better weather or a more beautiful location. next year we'll be hosting in the united states, that will be very good. that will be great. so far so good. the weather is perfect. the guests have been fantastic. everybody is getting along. we'll accomplish a lot this weekend. looking forward to it. thank you for having me. >> thank you, donald. >> thank you very much. >> a little bit hard to hear there. let me go through my notes. we had the french president meeting with the u.s. president. a lot of talk from emmanuel macron about the economy, needing to find new tools for the economy. he talked a bit about tax cuts, climate notably, something on the ajegenda at the g7. and you heard him say he and the president of the united states have a lot in common. gabe, the president of the united states remembering fondly the dinner they had together at the eiffel tower. what do you make of their relationship at this point? they placed faith and optim

we all remember the eiffel tower dinner. that was a very good beginning, and we have some really great things to talk about. >> the economy, global situation, how to fix the situation in terms of trade because i think we fix that situation. >> reporter: one of the key issues for president macron is climate change. he's been very focused on the wildfires in the amazon. it's unclear how receptive president trump will be. after all, last year during the g-7 he skimmed the summit on climate. he is really coming into this weekend with the economy top of mind, and we've learned from a white house official that the president spoke over the phone with the new british prime minister boris johnson yesterday. the two leaders are expected to meet face-to-face sometime over the summit. over there's a lot to discuss there as brexit looms. boris johnson is looking for the support from president trump. as it appears, the u.k. is headed towards a no-deal brexit. tomorrow morning there is this economic summit that the president pushed for, an

producing 16200 tons of residue you equivalent to the weight of 2 of france's eiffel towers. the company has wasted humiliates here on this he said constantly 24 hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. within a few years this hail will become another steep mountain of debris reaching up to 70 meters high. andrew passons and stephen joseph are its grand architects. what's in there. what is it's. well it's it's what's left over from there from the extraction process it's the rock that. held the gold. and what's left behind off the gold has been removed so it's silica and and other materials it's a sand. and. and other metals but many silica is there and you have the missiles for example there. would be trace amounts but but very small concentrations. and some of the gold ores there is uranium sauced deep has very little uranium minutes or so. there's very little uranium and in the us in the stomach you. can really. not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams a tonne 50 annually south african mining companies extract 10 times more uranium than go

families wanted to just leave home for the hell of it for the lights of broadway or to see the eiffel tower. they moving because colonialism, war, inequality and climb change have rendered their home land uninhabitable. >> i think about this a lot. i feel like these histories of colonialism, the histories of we -- westerners being there, still is not sort of for a general public being restored to curricular narratives. have a nine year, five-year-old and a four-year-old, who go to a public school i a few blocks from here. grew up in south carolina. and i am now 41 and i am astonished by how similar the lessons they learn -- and i'm not talking about math -- still are. so go toy one of children's classes and they're singing, you're a grand old flag, you're a high- -- i'm like, really, still singing these songs, still learning about columbus, framed as a hero, that actually happened this year. and so i think one of the things that people often ask me when i speak on panels or at eventes, what ick do to help you? and i'm lying, intervene with curriculum, help educate people but these historica

he's known as spider-man, the frenchman who has lined buildings all over the world, including the eiffel tower, the world's tallest building, and now for a third time, this is the third time he's done it. keqiang,r, owned by li and where bloomberg headquarters are. he climbed up here today, unveiling his own banner, which was a peace offering, if you will, with a chinese flag and a hong kong flag and a handshake. so it was not necessarily political against hong kong or china or taking sides. it was another chance for him to display his message of peace. and he did get carted away by police. he is at the station now. you are not supposed to climb skyscrapers, especially ones near 1000 feet tall. yvonne: yeah, it's happened before. certainly a site to see for everyone. i just want to show you what steve was mentioning. this is what li keqiang put up. we see a big red. no to violence. love china, love hong kong, love yourself. we'll continue to watch what's going on here, especially with this weekend, a planned rally. protesters defied those violations and start marching. the crowd comeg up after

emblazoned all over the eiffel tower. i'm not surprised they are upset. go at it. although they do make you feel embarrassed if you're not very good. every time you try to order ina not very good. every time you try to order in a restaurant, they pretend they don't understand. until you talk to them in english. ijust want the pistes are —— pizza. i love this story about hina ko the pistes are —— pizza. i love this story about hinako shibuno winning. she loves to giggle and laugh. she said she was going to spend her prize money on sweets. it's a bit different over there. they like squid and fish. she likes to smile and laugh and the manager dressed up for her, one day as a samurai and another day with a plastic sword and another day with a plastic sword and a clown's base. a real character. it's the first time see —— she's beenin it's the first time see —— she's been ina it's the first time see —— she's been in a major outside her own country. a fairy tale. very quickly, this is 33—year—old gb para climber jesse dufton, looking for some assistance with his

through the streets and it was like that scene in the movie french kiss where they never see the eiffel tower. they kept looking and looking and finally driving through the airport. >> you have been working on this year's -- this book for 15 years. did you interview all of the justices she served within how often did you interview her? what do you do when you have 15 plus years? what is your agenda? >> let me tell you how all this began. they said inevitably people are going to write about your life so why don't you make of your official biography people you really trust and i certainly trusted when they back. the first time in history it became possible to accept that the equal section clause meant that women were people with equal in stature to men. [applause] so i knew wendy's strategy and mine were pretty much the same. i knew she understood but we were trying to accomplish. i said yes to that. >> in fact when we came to her to talk about it she sat down at a little table and on the table there was a stack of documents and opinions and other things about this high. she said here's a littl

move over, eiffel tower and shop elysees --and chumps .nd seamus elysees the museum's director telling street journal," "we can better understand the economy." that is your bloomberg business flash. alix: because i really want the french to tell me how to run my economy. [laughter] david: the museum is so backward looking. it is extraordinary. they've got a treasury section. they play charlie chaplin for it. did they charge admission? alix: probably. to be fair, this is the only time i could teach my husband about economics because he loves paris. david: i just imagine telling my kids, we get to go to paris. we get to go to the museum of the economy. alix: maybe spice up the title a little bit. [laughter] david: good for them. it looks beautiful, by the way. now we turn to wall street beat. first of all, softbank's ipo visions. he in a 100 text dollars million deal -- in a $160 million deal. investors rush into passive investments. alix: joining us is sonali basak , bloomberg banking reporter. softbank came out with earnings, but what stood out is what they said about ipo's. startn we

he talked about eating dinner at the restaurant in the eiffel tower.r leaders are interacting with him in these meets? >> president trump said that hour and a half lunch was the best meeting he ever had with macron. he said it was a special relationship. and they do seem to, throughout his presidency, get on well together. and at the very same time, while we were eating whatever they were eating, president trump's aides were criticizing the french host and said he was focusing on niche issues like climbed change and economic growth. there's an issue there. and that resurfaced when president macron said he was going to open talks about iran and that he had the support of the g7. and president trump quickly shot back that president macron does not speak for the united states. president macron produced another statement saying he has no mandate from the g7. but that he would talk to iran because he speaks for france. i think that president trump spreads confusion and there is anxiety in this group of friends, the allies about what he says and what he mean

through the streets, and it was like that scene in the movie "french kiss" where they never see the eiffel tower? we kept looking and looking, and finally driving to the airport, remember? we turned and there it was. >> wendy, you've been working on this book for 15 years with mary. did you interview all of the justices she served with? how often did you interview her? what do you do when you have 15 plus years? what is your agenda? >> wendy, before you answer, let me tell you how -- [laughter] all this began. >> you're not going to get -- >> wendy and mary came to see me, and they said inevitably people are going to write about your life. so why don't you make it your official biography, people you really trust. and i certainly trusted wendy and i were in the trenches in the '70s when for the first time in history it became possible for courts to accept, the equal protection clause meant that women were people, equal in stature to men. [applause] so i knew wendy's strategy and mine were pretty much the same. i knew that she understood what we were trying to accomplish. so i said yes without hes

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