nick spicer, al jazeera paris. >> trial of a british doctor undergoing female genital mutilation of the mother. noncommunicable diseases, smoking is a major factor. it is estimated that there are 300 million smokers in china. but from june in beijing will smoking smoking in public places and that ban could eventually be being extended across the nation. >> before they know it he has plucked the cigarette out of the hand leaving smokers bewildered. he's been doing this for 17 years, spurred on by the death of his sister from cancer. but he's realistic about his efforts. >> just because i take away their cigarette doesn't mean they will stop smoking but hopefully they will remember this moment the next time they light up. >> china accounts for nearly a third of the world's smokers. according to the world health organization tobacco kills around 1 million smokers each year in the country and another 100,000 die from exposure to secondhand smoke. after attempt to ban public smoking a few yearsal years ago they are trying again. smoking will be banned in indoor public place including restaur

nick spicer has more. >> reporter: the attacks against magazine "charlie hebdo" and ojewish supermarket set off another kind of attack, a much wider cyber attack in france. hackers in north africa changed the websites of universities town councils and local shops among others. france's interior minister on monday toured a cyber crime unit of the french police outside paris. he said he would present measures to fight the hackers this week. >> translator: more than 1300 attacks have been claimed by hacker groups or hackers saying they are islamist. >> late last year the french government passed a new antiterror law organizations the french government considers to be terrorist. and it also new measures could prevent determined hackers operating from overseas. as the french struggle to return to a feeling of being safe, the hacked websites feel like an attempt to say no, you're not. the attacks were not sophisticated but they were massive. experts call the replaced home pages defacements. >> a defacement is like if you are in a town with many different shops. and the hackers what they try t

nick spicer is in paris for us. >> soldiers on the street.the french prime minister calls it a war. he announced half a billion dollars worth of spending on more intelligence and police officers for the battle. >> over the next three years there will be 2,680 new jobs committed against terrorism and injustices in the state. this effort, ladies and gentlemen, is huge, but it's indispensable to guarantee the security and protection of the french people. other measures include a national registry of suspects. the prime minister said there are some 3,000 in france right now. he also promised easier wiretapping for the intelligence services, and deradicalization program targeting prisoners and young people. they say more needs to be done creating a dialogue between people and politicians not police. >> there have been little attacks because of this, but now we're obliged to think further not just reactive and just increasing of budgets. >> the first charge in the killings earlier this month were laid on wednesday against men suspected of providing

nick spicer, al jazeera paris. >> remember you can get everything we're covering on our website, the address is aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. >> it's a name americans are still learning, but if epidemiologists are right, it's one that we'll know all too well. chicken gunia. that's inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez.

supporters in north africa and nick spicer has more from paris. >> reporter: the attacks against thearlie hebdo and jewish super market set off another attack a much wider cyber assault on targets in france and hackers based in part in north africa changed the home pages of thousands of websites of university and town councils and shops among others. france interior minister on monday toured a cyber crime unit of the french police in paris and said he would fight the hackers this week. >> translator: tens of hackers claiming to be allied with muslim organization have responsibility for attacks and show ability to do harm. >> reporter: late last year the french government passed a new antiterror law and bans french websites for recruiting fighters to join organizations the french government considers to better risks and bans sites from condoneing attacks france has gone through and hard to see measures to prevent hackers from operating overseas. >> reporter: as french struggle to return to a feeling of being safe they are saying no you are not, attacks not sophisticated but they were

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. >> here is the latest from nick spicer in paris. >> the french prime minister announced spending half a billion u.s. to hire 2500 new anti-terror agents working with the police and the justice ministry. he announced national registries of people that have been associated with terrorism cial or who authorities were looking at. he announced that prisoners were suspected of belonging to radical groups will be brought together in one gaol. he announced a hiring of moderate emails going into prisons, preventing prisoners there from becoming radicalize the. there'll be monitoring of the internet to prevent recruitment of fighters and to prevent the propagation, islamist ideas over social media. >> ukraine's prime minister says the country will increase the size of the armed forces. a law is being proposed that will see the army grow to 250,000 strong force. the prime minister made the announcement at a government meeting. it comes as peace talks are about to begin in berlin. now, boko haram claims responsibility for the attack in baga that kills hundreds of people. in that attack rebel figh

nick spicer, al jazeera paris. >> remember you can get everything we're covering on our website, the address is aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. >> it's a name americans are still learning, but if epidemiologists are right, it's one that we'll know all too well. chicken gunia. that's inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. it causes excruciating pain, fever, no cure, little treatment. so far no one has caught the disease called chikundunya in the united states. the sufferers have contracted it while suffering and brought it home. but public health authorities in the u.s. know its just a matter of time before it's here. chikungunya. the name comes from the language of the miconda people of tanzania. it means to become distorted. it is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes, causes fever, severe long- term joint pain. headache, rash, nausea. there is no cure for the disease, which is not fatal. it cannot be transmitted through human contact. it was first seen in 1952, but only arrived in the western hemisphere in 2015 on the caribbean island of st. maarten. >> and in the u.s. there

nick spicer reports from berlin. >> customers are getting spruced up at this hair salon. big change for nieshka a single mother. >> i thinkists a super-idea, makes you feel a bit more motivated. i'll have a bit more money and be able to buy more for my child. >> germany, federal government would stand back and allow unions and businesses to strike a deal that would balance social justice with a profit motive. in february 2014 made the minimum wage a condition for joining the coalition. the minimum wage won't help workers in germany's big auto companies. they already earn more than 8 euros per hour or $10.50. this boss says he's okay with paying more if that's the price of keeping good staff but there's new red tape. >> we now have to keep records on every single worker. how many hours has he worked per day reflection and this information has to be made available at the restaurant. so if there is an spleks i have toinspection iwill have to show records and give proof otherwise i will have to pay a big fine. >> in order to stimulate growth across europe, the minimum wage wo

we have more now from nick spicer from the french capitol. >> soldiers on the streets. the french prime minister calls it a war. he announced half a billion dollars of spending hiring men and women mostly police and diligence officers for the battle. >> over the next three years there will be 600,000 new jobs edit kateed dedicated to the fight. this is huge but indispensable to guarantee the security and protection of the french people. >> other measures include a national registry of suspects. the prime minister said that there are 3,000 in france right now. he also promised easier wiretapping from the intelligence services and deradicalization program targeting the prison population and young people. but experts on deradicalization say that more need to be done. more from the applications politicians, not the police. >> now we are obliged to think further and to think what could be the after not just reactive, and increasing the budget. >> the first charges in the killings earlier this month were late on laid on this man. by the prime minister's own estimate it has in

. >> nick spicer reporting from paris. russia's foreign minister says he'll seek a ceasefire in eastern ukraine with peace talks due to take place in berlin. foreign ministers of russia and ukraine. germany and france are due to take part. dozens have been killed or wounded in eastern donetsk as well as in luhansk. and russia has denied accusations from kiev that it is responsible for the upsurge in the violence. the foreign minister says ta russia will do everything it can to resolve the crisis in ukraine. crossing to moscow and peter sharp to tell us what sergey lavrov has to say. and whether he put anything forward that was concrete to bring an end to the hostilities. >> well there has been as you know a savage increase in the fighting in eastern ukraine, starting off a few days ago with a major offensive by the ukraine forces and a counter attack by the rebels. ukraine called up 50,000 volunteers and reservists. the death toll there now is approaching 5,000 since the fighting started about a year ago. good reasons why

. >> here's the latest from paris now from nick spicer. >> the french prime minister announced spendion of half a billion u.s. dollars to hire 2500 new antiterror agents, who will be working with the police, with the justice ministry. he announced other measures, including a national registry of people who have been associated with terrorism or who the judicial authorities are looking at for possible links to terrorism. he also announced that prisoners who are suspected of belonging to radical groups will be brought together in one jail, so they can be better monitored and reradicallized. he announced the hiring of moderates who will go into french prisons and prevent prisoners from becoming radicalized. he said there would be increased monitoring of the internet to prevent the recruitment of fighters who might want to go to iraq or syria and to prevent the prop allegation of what he called islamist ideas officer social media. >> u.s. president barack obama struck a defiant tone in his annual state of the union address, setting out a vision for a more equal america but with a republican