this is about showing the world that francophonie is increasing its reach and the media is open for business. professional footballer. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. ok it's time to get the sports news now here so. thank you very much barbara while the new york yankees have been eliminated from a made to league baseball playoffs they were beaten by fierce rivals the boston red sox at yankee stadium with the red sox already three up at the top of the fourth inning christian vasquez hits a home run to make it for nothing as the sold out crowd in the bronx despite a late rally by the yankees in the ninth inning boston or able to hold them off for a full three when the red sox advice to the american indeed championship series for the first time since two thousand and thirteen their host defending a wall series champions the houston astros on saturday at fenway park. but it's phenomenal you know it's it's been a great season sort of when one of the vision. team played great over the la

is the new face of the international organization of the francophonies for the next few years. speaking to france 24, she said world needed to live side-by-side with the rest. francophone the world is not at war with the commonwealth. french isn't at war with the english. fits into a world with many languages, the case in my country. inshe was born in kigali 1961. genocide, shendan was in the states with her husband. perfectly y bilingual, she has o not t for her country and has criticized france's interference in african affairs. >> who decides africa's political future? paris does not decide. that is clear. >> mushikiwabo is seen as controversrsial. she is considered a right-hand man in an authoritarian regime. she has sidelined french in favor of english and rwanda. her nomination is seen as a vehicle for french interests and an opportunity for france to ease tensions with rwanda. combingh teams are through shattered american communities looking for victims of category michael. it carved out destruction in the florida panhandle, killing at least six. rescue workers are strug

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this is about showing the world that the left francophonie is increasing its reach and the media is open for business. and sport after the break more in the house down. welcome back top of the sport has some. new york yankees have been eliminated from the major league baseball playoffs they were beaten by fierce rivals the boston red sox at yankee stadium with the red sox already three up at the top of the fourth inning christian fastest hits a home run to make it for nothing as the sold out crowd in the bronx despite a late rally by the yankees in the ninth inning boston were able to hold them off for a full three when the red sox it's vast to the american indeed championship series for the first time since two thousand and thirteen their host defending a wall series champions the houston astros on saturday at fenway park. but it's phenomenal you know it's it's been a great season sort of when one of the vision. team played great over the last four days. also in the also in the clinches one one of the l.c.s. . more so enjoy tonight in back to work tomorrow. diamond is the national baseb

this summit is about showing the world that life francophonie is increasing its reach and that our media is open for business robyn first year walker al jazeera yerevan. the whole thing the illegal trade in wildlife and protecting some of the world's best known species is the main aim of a summit going on in london it's estimated the global wildlife trafficking market is worth up to twenty three billion dollars a year that makes it the fourth most lucrative transnational crime after drugs weapons and human trafficking. illegal poaching has forced a number of exotic species to the brink of extinction and clark is that conference for us in london. across the globe there's a war raging a slaughtering of wildlife like never before the enemy criminal syndicates the water the killings that will this an all too familiar scene across africa elephants killed tusks hacked off and spirited away to be turned into trinkets and pseudo medicine for the asian market. thousands of miles away from the killing fields in london such atrocities are focusing minds one thousand delegates from eighty two nation

this is about showing the world that the left francophonie is increasing its reach in the media is open to business robin first you will care. about. take a look at the headlines right now on al-jazeera twenty two u.s. senators have written a letter to president trump that will force the administration to investigate human rights abuses by saudi arabia and also raises the possibility of sanctions it's in reaction to the disappearance of saudi journalist from all the shows he was last in a week ago entering his country's consulate in istanbul uncertainty still surrounds the investigation into his alleged murder turkey says the saudis have agreed to let them search the consulate but it's unknown when or if that will actually happen. more from washington d.c. . it's not just the letter that's really significant we're seeing such incredibly harsh language coming from u.s. senators former staunch allies big defenders of saudi arabia people like senator lindsey graham saying that if this is true and these are his words they'll be hell to pay so we're seeing a bipartisan growing calls for the

five a billion people will be speaking it according to the international organization of life francophonie but at the francophone business forum some believe this organization is actually a space for talking the international language of money i think is the opportunity for everybody english or i mean french people to get some pleasure to normal how is very important now is not the language for me reason where did we do business is to win the francophone village you get a sense of what this organization is all about eighty four countries and not just plain speaking ones represented by a hundred million people promoting peace and prosperity think of it as a kind of french united nations for the armenian hosts this summit has special significance mass street protests brought about a peaceful revolution in may was you government needs friends. in. like the tech industry after the revolution we have more and more interest from different investors coming to us and being very excited about what has happened in armenia because democratic change democratic institutions democratic economic transpar

this summit is about showing the world that the left francophonie is increasing its reach and that our media is open for business robyn first year will al-jazeera. now the u.k. science museum is promising visitors a bright day out whatever the weather a new exhibition shows how the sun has influenced every aspect of human life and why it still fascinates us now the baba reports from london. it's our closest star but in many ways it's still a mystery the sun has influenced our belief systems our arts our travel and of course it's the basis for life on earth this show at london's science museum looks back at how we used to think about the sun and forwards the challenges like really harnessing its energy with things like solar panels going forward said energy we are seeing a lot more technological development for the first time it's actually thought it become cheaper than fossil fuels but we do need that push from politics and also from the everyday population as well these you would find. one idea featured here is how scientists have tried to recreate the nuclear reactions the power of t

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delegates will be debating saudi arabia really to be considered a member or a suitable member for less francophonie robin thank you very much for that for now that is that robin forestay a walker joining us live from iran thank you now chinese stock markets have plunged to their lowest levels and for years the benchmark shanghai composite has dropped more than four percent on clothes and the last few hours china second exchange dropped about six percent for is being blamed on the u.s. china trade war and an i.m.f. warning about global financial stability. a man accused of being a chinese spy has been extradited to the u.s. on charges of economic espionage younger and soon was arrested in belgium and brought to the u.s. on tuesday is accused of stealing information from american aerospace firms on behalf of china ju is a deputy division director in the james you province of the chinese ministry of state security or and the s.s. the m.s.s. is the intelligence and security agency for china. is responsible for counterintelligence foreign intelligence and political security. one of jews job duties was t

admired and respected country with membership in the g-7, leading country in the commonwealth, the francophonie great set of credentials, but i think it's admired around the world and respected as such, and so while this is not a guarantee of anything nor is canada seeking to influence anyone, but generally what happens is its social advances occur when one country steps forward and does something and the others tend to analyze it and check it out and see if it's a value to their citizens, and if so, they tend to adopt it. that's what happened, for example, many years ago with same-sex marriage as an important social initiative that would have about difficult to conceive of 25 or 30 years ago but today is widely, if not unilersly accepted, and so i think that given the importance of what this change can do, particularly in the area of medical cannabis, and the great benefits that this can bring to families in sorrow these days and with great difficulties, i think this is going to be widely admired and probably followedy >> >> kevin, give us a sense of where this industry is headed. we have a go