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or the former french president nicolas sarkozy has been taken into police custody just outside paris he's being questioned in an investigation over irregularities in campaign finance french police are looking into suspected illegal funding from libya of sarkozy's two thousand and seven presidential bid. chinese president xi jinping has warned against any effort to divide his country he made the remarks at a closing speech in the annual parliamentary meeting it's seen as the strongest warning yet to taiwan which china claims as its territory last week u.s. president donald trump angered beijing after signing a bill that encourages senior officials to meet directly with taiwan's government shoes and. it's a shared aspiration of all chinese people and in their basic interest to safeguard china's sovereignty and territorial integrity and realize china's complete reunification in the face of the will of the people and the trend of history any actions in tricks to split china are doomed to fail and will meet with the people's condemnations and the punishment of history a species of the rhin

thank you francis former president nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation is accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from libya's late leader more market off sarkozy denies any wrongdoing our natasha butler joins us live now from paris so natasha this formal investigation what does that mean what is this process going to look like as far as we know. well three french judges placed nicolas sarkozy the former french president under formal investigation now they chose to do that charging him with corruption the misuse of libyan money and illegal presidential campaign funding it is illegal in france to use foreign money for a presidential campaign now nicolas sarkozy was questioned by police just outside of paris in a police station in for twenty four hours as police tried to find out exactly whether or not sarkozy had any direct links to this libyan money that was used allegedly in his two thousand and seven presidential campaign now what so cozy can do now is he has six months in order to try and challenge and appeal these charges but in the meantime magistrates will continu

container this is al jazeera live from london also coming up former french president nicolas sarkozy is placed under formal investigation over alleged campaign funding from libya. there is president has resigned hours before congress was set to impeach him over corruption allegations. and book around releases more than a hundred girls kidnapped last month from a school in nigeria. and the head of facebook has admitted his company made mistakes in its data protection after revelations a u.k. firm had misused information from the social media platform c.e.o. mark zuckerberg finally broke his silence four days after british media exposed the actions of cambridge analytical mike hanna as the latest after a dramatic day of developments hit the nail on the head a hearing on election security by the senate intelligence committee john discussion about how to protect the electoral process from outside agencies in the light of social media interference some twenty sixteen the elephant not in the room though is facebook founder mark zuckerberg he and facebook chief operating officer sheryl sand

to france delaware former president nicolas sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy allegedly accepted millions of dollars from gadhafi while running for office in two thousand and seven the investigation into his election campaign has been underway for the past five years he denies any wrongdoing. has more from ten near paris this is the first time that a former french president has been placed under formal investigation for illegal foreign campaign funding foreign funds planned during presidential campaigns here in france well nicolas sarkozy was questioned by french police for just over twenty four hours police station just behind me it's just outside of paris and then he was released earlier on thursday afternoon around five thirty local time and placed on a conditional release we don't know whether that means bail whether there will be restrictions on his travel but what we do know is three judges then decided to place him under formal investigation for corruption for the

humans in relation to it and it all blew up again during the last presidential campaign because nicolas sarkozy was actually running as a candidate for the conservative party back then and a lebanese frenchman came out and said that he had carried suitcases of money containing five million euros for sarkozy's campaign in two thousand and seven are sarkozy is always denied these claims saying that they are just a political smear and he's never been directly linked to the allegations but the fact that he is here under arrest could suggest that magistrates feel they are coming closer to exactly got to linking him to this case directly. potential thanks a lot for us there in longtail just outside of paris now she jinping has closed china's annual parliamentary session with a stern warning that those who want to divide the country are doomed to fail but much of the two week meeting focused on consolidating the chinese president's powers scott hi-lo reports from beijing it's been called china's annual political theater the national people's congress and this year it produced big changes and a number

through this despicable incident that was done by hamas in the gaza strip former french president nicolas sarkozy has been taken into custody just outside paris he is being questioned an investigation over irregularities in campaign finance french police are looking into suspected illegal funding from libya of sarkozy's two thousand and seven presidential bid. chinese president xi jinping has warned against any effort to divide china she made the remarks during his closing speeds in the annual parliamentary meeting it's seen as his strongest warning yet to taiwan which china considers its territory last week u.s. president donald trump angered beijing after signing a bill that encourages senior officials to meet directly with taiwan's government a species of the rhinoceros is a step closer towards extinction after the last male died in kenya vets ended the life of the northern white rhino called sudan when his health worsened d.n.a. samples were taken just before the forty five year old died in the hope that future technology could revive the species only two northern white females survive after

agent in response british diplomats have been expelled from moscow the former french president nicolas sarkozy has been taken into police custody just outside paris he's being questioned over alleged irregularities in campaign financing french police are looking into suspected illegal funding from libya of sarkozy's she thousand and several seven presidential campaign hamas is again denying oldring last week's attack on the palestinian prime minister in gaza in a speech in ramallah president abbas blamed his political rivals for the roadside bomb explosion coming up next the stream. it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the billion. dollar debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about the go to real. hi emily could be and you're in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube today india's forbidden love before we start take a look at this clip of a young woman named telling the story of how she met her husband shankar for the first time. i. meet a liar.

france's former president nicolas sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation he's accused of receiving illegal campaign funds for the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy allegedly accepted millions of dollars from gadhafi while running for office in two thousand and seven. there is congress has accepted the resignation of president but the republican who stepped down amid corruption allegations kaczynski denied any wrongdoing but said he did not want to be an obstacle in the country's development. in the face of this difficult situation that has developed and has unjustly made me appear guilty of acts i have not participated in i think the best thing for the country is that i resign. a palestinian teenage girl on trial for slapping an israeli soldier has been sentenced to eight months in prison after accepting a plea deal seventeen year old had to me is accused of assault after hitting the man in the face last year in the uk by the west bank to be agreed to plead guilty to fool the twelve charges against should be fined fourteen hundred dollars. most of the one hundred

former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial accused of corruption and influence peddling his lawyers say he will appeal against the decision the case centers on one top phone calls in which sarkozy allegedly tried to sway judges but actually buckley has more from powers well this case all dates back to two thousand and fourteen at the time a french police were investigating the former french president nicolas sarkozy over alleged illegal campaign funding of his two thousand and seven presidential campaign and as part of the investigation the police put a wiretap on both nicolas sarkozy's mobile phone and that of his lawyer and they stumbled across a conversation of one point in which sarkozy and his lawyer were discussing a giving a top french judge a very comfortable position in monaco in return for some inside information on the investigation well sarkozy was later placed under formal investigation on alleged corruption charges but he and his lawyer always denied those charges they have appealed in the past saying that those wiretaps were in fact illegal but now we have

nicolas sarkozy has denied wrongdoing.onspiracy, people seeking vengeance. conspiracy, people seeking vengeance. he, along with david cameron, was one of the first to launch warplanes against libya and the uprising which was overthrown. this is something out of a novel. the person leading the charges, as it were, has said he handed over three suitcases stuffed with around $4.4 million. i have no view as to whether this is true. but it does mean for whether this is true. but it does meanfor him... whether this is true. but it does mean for him... i mean, whether this is true. but it does meanfor him... i mean, he has had ambitions to return, to be re—elected as president of france. that was his ambition, of course. emmanuel macron has eclipsed into a great degree. perhaps this could mean he will never return. is this the end? in french politics, you never know. we said that about silvio berlusconi and he is back. the daily express. a few interesting characters in politics. first, nicolas sarkozy, now borisjohnson, hitting h

former french president nicolas sarkozy. corsi is being held by police over allegations he received millions of dollars in illegal campaign financing on the former libyan native one large enough it's according to a nice any wrongdoing natasha but there are reports that paris. nicolas sarkozy only served one term as french president he swept to power in two thousand and seven promising a new style of leadership but left office amid allegations that his presidential campaign had received illegal funds from libya in two thousand and twelve a french news website published documents suggesting former libyan leader mohamed gadhafi had agreed to give sarkozy's campaign fifty million dollars today the editor says it's one of more than france's biggest political scandals. when the arab spring kicks off starting in tunisia and people start rising up there are real questions about this twenty eleven war where france with nicolas sarkozy overstepped the mandate of the united nations to the point where a regime was overthrown allowing fo

former president nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from libya's leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy to nine sandy wrongdoing. police say they have found evidence a twenty three year old was behind a bombing spree and the u.s. state of texas the suspect mark anthony called it service car into a ditch then blew himself up on wednesday john hendren asked more from condit's hometown of pflugerville. after a three week manhunt the austin package bombers latest victim was himself his motive still a mystery the suspect is deceased in a final confrontation with officers who had tracked him down to a suburban hotel police say twenty three year old mark anthony condit detonated an explosive leaving him dead his parents at a loss to explain it a series of questions unanswered we don't know where this suspect has spent his last twenty four hours we also have not fully been able to rule out whether or not there were any other accomplices may be a part of this is still pose a danger police did reveal one surprising discovery on the bomber cell

france's former president nicolas sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation accused of receiving any girl campaign donations from the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy is alleged to have received millions of dollars from gadhafi when he was running for office in two thousand and seven he has denied any wrongdoing that's going on now to natasha butler in paris for the latest so we will do we know about these charges. or what is interesting is this is the first time that a former french president has been placed under formal investigation for illegal campaign funding from of foreign money now over the past twenty four hours nicolas sarkozy was questioned by police officers and non-tariff police station just outside of paris just behind me as they try to investigate exactly what his role was what his links were to this libyan money that was used in his two thousand and seven presidential campaign now he was released from police custody around five thirty this afternoon local time his conditions of his release on yet known it could be bail it could be just that there are tra

what's alleged is that when he won the two thousand and seven presidential race nicolas sarkozy's campaign received as much as sixty million dollars from the libyan dictator colonel gadhafi the current libyan government is watching the sarkozy case with keen interest of all of the so-called z. is being brought to court even though the case is old this is the type of democracy desired by everyone that rejects dictatorship. duffy and his sons used to abuse libyan funds with no accountability and intervene in other countries domestic affairs. psychos he insists he's being falsely accused by gadhafi his clan as a revenge for toppling the former dictator in twenty eleven but investigative journalists from the paris news website media part have been at the forefront of gathering documentary evidence to corroborate the corruption charges to be endelman yonks the libyan affair in a spectacular way shows are nicolas sarkozy and his clan are in the middle of what can be called a matthew a style affair in the heart of politics. there is a suspicion that a democratic state france might have been bough

dollars worth of cash in suitcases from tripoli's of paris one hundred that money to one of nicolas sarkozy's close is aides well over the years sarkozy has always denied any links or received denied that he's ever received any illegal funds from libya has always said that he's been the target of his opponents and critics it's been a political smear campaign but now that he has retired from politics it's only going to be a lot harder to use that as his line of defense. still to come in this half hour another school shooting in the u.s. this time in maryland and a package bound for austin explodes in texas injuring an employee at a fed ex facility. hello there it's turning a lot cooler now for some of us in the eastern parts of china shanghai will see the temperatures drop on wednesday all maximum will just be eight degrees that's five degrees below the average but it's a one day wonder and as we head through into thursday the temperatures recover quite nicely and this time will be back up at fifty nobody a great deal of what weather around is told just a few bits and pieces of rain perhaps ov

, nicolas sarkozy.y for questioning by magistrates looking at allegations of libyan funding for the 2007 election campaign, that is according to an official in the french judiciary. a lawyerfor to an official in the french judiciary. a lawyer for nicolas sarkozy could not be reached immediately for comments. former french president nicolas sarkozy held in police custody over allegations of libyan funding for his 2007 election campaign. more during the day on bbc news. still to come... taking on the fashion giants! we'll speak to the boss of one online clothing retailer hoping to take market share away from the likes of asos and zara. consumers could see prices fall by up to 1.2% if britain were to abolish all tariffs after brexit, that's according to a new report out today by the institute for fiscal studies. joining me now is simon french, chief economist, panmure gordon & co. thank you forjoining us on the programme. they are saying that prices could fall if tariffs are abolished, but on the flip side

try and help him become a more legitimate world leader if you like and it was shortly after nicolas sarkozy's victory in two thousand and seven that sarkozy then rolled out the red carpet for the libyan leader in him to even pitches tense near the police a palace in the center of parsons a very controversial visit and many then questioned why cozy would perhaps open and welcome a good duffy in this way and ever since these allegations these this questioning over this possible funding off sarkozy's campaign by the libyan leader has been raised again and again but as i said this is the first time sarkozy has been perhaps directly questioned over it all right for now thank you very much indeed. the live in a paris. now reports coming in of a package having exploded at a major mail facility apostle processing. in texas it's a fedex facility and it happened just northeast of san antonio is a package said to have contained nails as well as other shrapnel local media is saying f.b.i. and bomb disposal experts were on the scene of the seventy five people working at the facility only one is reported t

just twenty four hours after being placed under formal investigation into nicolas sarkozy has come out fighting with us having failed to convince a paris judge to drop the corruption charges on national television sarkozy put his case before the court of french public opinion devotion of a deal of more mundane yes you i want to express the depth of my indignation i owe it to a french people only to tell them the truth i did not betray their trust. and he lashed out at his libyan accusers c genre those people who assassins criminals delinquents have not come up with any evidence the libyan witnesses have said the bottom out of money could not come out of about leaving a trace for deputies too i don't everything photograph everything i want he was crazy and surely taking drugs. to go she's. what's alleged is that when he won the two thousand and seven presidential race nicolas sarkozy's campaign received as much as sixty million dollars from the libyan dictator colonel gadhafi the current libyan government is watching the sarkozy case with keen interest of all of the so-called z. is bein

to france now where former president nicolas sarkozy has been placed on the formal investigation accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy allegedly accepted millions of dollars from gadhafi while running for office in two thousand and seven the investigation into his election campaign has been underway for the past five years he denies any wrongdoing has more from than ten near paris. this is the first time that a former french president has been placed under formal investigation for illegal foreign campaign funding for planned during presidential campaigns here in france well nicolas sarkozy was questioned by french police for just over twenty four hours police station just behind me just outside of paris and then he was released earlier on thursday afternoon around five thirty local time and placed on a conditional release we don't know whether that means bail whether there will be restrictions on his travel but what we do know is three judges then decided to place him under formal investigation for corruption for the misuse of

thirteen to say that he had personally delivered millions of euros in cash to a close aide of nicolas sarkozy so it seems now with the arrest of the former president here just outside of paris that perhaps police feel that they are coming closer to make a direct link between sarkozy and that possible money that is something that wasn't made before because sarkozy has always said that he has no links to libya that he is completely innocent of these allegations all right phenomena tasha bala live for us there in paris like. now saudi crown prince mohammed bin cell man has met the u.s. president the white house with donald trump using the encounter from an unusual photo opportunity he displayed large cards to illustrate the benefits of arms being sold to riyadh rights groups say those sales shouldn't be made to saudi arabia which is leading a campaign in yemen against hooty rebels alan fischer reports from washington. it was a looky arrival for such a high profile visit the crown prince from saudi arabia did not go in through the front door but soon found himself in the oval office and the us pr

ever worsening a social and economic crisis in the country the former president of france nicolas sarkozy is to face trial for corruption influence peddling he's accused of making phone calls to influence judges who were and best to getting alleged illegal financing during his two thousand and seven presidential campaign sarkozy's lawyers say he will appeal against the decision separately he's accused to receiving campaign funding from the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi to talk about war has more from paris. well this case all dates back to two thousand and fourteen at the time french police were investigating the former french president nicolas sarkozy over alleged illegal campaign funding of his two thousand and seven presidential campaign and as part of the investigation the police put a wiretap on both nicolas sarkozy's mobile phone and that of his lawyer and they stumbled across a conversational one point in which sarkozy and his lawyer were discussing a giving a top french judge a very comfortable position in monaco in return for some inside information on the investigation well

highest court has decided to press ahead with those charges and it's very likely indeed that nicolas sarkozy will now face trial in this investigation it has to be said though the past few weeks have not been good for the former president his legal woes are really piling up he was placed under formal investigation just last week for other corruption charges again linked to illegal campaign funding this time of his two thousand and seven campaign allegedly he misused libyan money in that campaign and he's already very likely to face trial over another case also involving illegal campaign funding this time of his two thousand and twelve presidential bid. britain's prime minister to resign may is touring the country to mark one year before the u.k. officially the european union but pro european groups often referred to as remain as are refusing to give up hope of staying in the. u.k. correspondent barnaby phillips reports. she didn't vote for bret's it to put on a rapid tour of britain starting in a scottish textile factory the prime minister urged the country to embrace the idea of leaving the

that's the police questioning for a second day of former french president nicolas sarkozy. t: and made the front page of the french paper here in france and also on the front page of a lebanese french language paper. they say sarkozy is caught by the ghost of moammar qaddafi. sarkozy is an police constantly -- in police custody for the scandal linked to libyan illegal financing for his 2007 presidential campaign. there is some commentary and the european press like the spanish paper. if accusations are true, this would sack the confidence that french people have in their leaders and could damage france's international image. they say sarkozy is by far not the first french leader to be facing such scandals after he has left office. and thes have changed tolerance threshold that french people have for these kinds of scandals may be much lower than in the past. cartoonist, it's the return of the living dead in a way as you can see a skeleton of moammar qaddafi has risen from the dead and is coming back in and haunting not jus sarkozy but his former ministers , both of whom have

the allegation that nicolas sarkozy accepted as much as fifty million euros in campaign contributions from the libyan dictator moammar gadhafi some of it even delivered as cash in suitcases is not new it first emerged in twenty thirteen because he has always vehemently denied it and no one had seriously questioned him about it but now he said to be under interrogation in this interior ministry building in paris a former top aide is also said to have been questioned but later released the libyan money allegedly helped finance sarkozy's two thousand and seven campaign for the presidency which he won but it seems that sarkozy failed to deliver on promises he made to gadhafi and in twenty eleven gadhafi is son bitterly denounced the french president so of course he had well ahead the first thing we ask of this clown's of cozies is that he repay the money to the libyan people. we helped him become president so that he would help the libyan people but he's disappointed and very soon we will publish all the details and the documents and the banking payslips. soon after france was part of the

countries then signed a raft of trade deals now what some people said at the time was that perhaps nicolas sarkozy was rolling out the red carpet because there was something behind this and a few years later all these allegations started to come out that libyan money had been used to fund sarkozy's presidential campaign and if you fast forward to two thousand and eleven just a few years after sarkozy was elected sarkozy in france were at the forefront of a push to intervene in libya to rage war or libya and what some people were saying was perhaps sarkozy was doing that because he wanted to get rid of the gadhafi regime and any compromising information that it would have on him well nicolas sarkozy during his questioning with police here in france over the last few days he has basically refuted those claims he says he is completely innocent and that the gadhafi family came up with those allegations because they were so furious that he had turned against them and that he had led this intervention in libya in two thousand and eleven he says he's innocent he says he has no direct link to this libyan

french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya and three months off to bed he surviving an impeachment vote president has resigned . the head of facebook says he would welcome regulation of the social media platform if it was the right kind mark zuckerberg is promising tough the steps to restrict developers access to information after admitting facebook mishandle dot of belonging to fifteen million of its uses. finally broke his silence five days. after the u.k. media expose the actions of cambridge and a lot of her the fervent use of improperly accessing use information to manipulate us voices in a post on facebook is like a big admits that his company made mistakes that its data protection is promising an investigation into apps on the platform after a quote is allowed to cambridge analytical access to information on millions of profiles despite only three hundred thousand users responding to the quiz the quiz gave cambridge analytical access to respondents friends as well and because of this facebook maintains that there

say as we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera the former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial accused of corruption and influence peddling his lawyers say he will appeal the decision the case centers on wiretap phone calls and what sarkozy allegedly tried to sway judges who are looking into claims of illegal financing financing during his two thousand and seven presidential campaign that's also butler has more from paris. well this case all dates back to two thousand and fourteen at the time french police were investigating the former french president nicolas sarkozy over alleged illegal campaign funding of his two thousand and seven presidential campaign and as part of the investigation the police put a wiretap on both nicolas sarkozy's mobile phone and that of his lawyer and they stumbled across a conversational one point in which sarkozy and his lawyer were discussing a giving a top french judge a very comfortable position in monaco in return for some inside information on the investigation well sarkozy was later placed under formal investigation on alleged

seven presidential campaign and as part of the investigation the police put a wiretap on both nicolas sarkozy's mobile phone and that of his lawyer and they stumbled across a conversational one point in which sarkozy and his lawyer were discussing a giving a top french judge a very comfortable position in monaco in return for some inside information on the investigation well sarkozy was later placed under formal investigation on alleged corruption charges but he and his lawyer always denied those charges they have appealed in the past saying that those wiretaps were in fact illegal but now we have a case in which france's highest court has decided to press ahead with those charges and it's very likely indeed that nicolas sarkozy will now face trial in this investigation it has to be said though the past few weeks have not been good for the former president his legal woes are really piling up he was placed under formal investigation just last week for other corruption charges again linked to illegal campaign funding this time of his two thousand and seven campaign allegedly he misused libyan mon

the former french president nicolas sarkozy is being held by. police for questioning over allegations that he received millions of dollars in illegal campaign financing from a former libyan leader moammar gadhafi investigators are looking into claims that the gadhafi regime gave sarkozy as much as sixty eight million dollars so because he has always denied any wrongdoing that hash about the reports from paris. nicolas sarkozy only served one term as french president he swept to power in two thousand and seven promising a new style of leadership but he left office amid allegations that his presidential campaign had received illegal funds from libya in two thousand and twelve a french news website published documents suggesting former libyan leader mohamed gadhafi had agreed to give sarkozy's campaign fifty million dollars today the editor says it's one of more than france's biggest political scandals. when the arab spring kicks off starting in tunisia and people start rising up there are real questions about this twenty eleven war where france wi

what's alleged is that when he won the two thousand and seven presidential race nicolas sarkozy's campaign received as much as sixty million dollars from the libyan dictator colonel gadhafi. the current libyan government is watching the sarkozy case with keen interest all of the so-called z. is being brought to court even though the case is old this is the type of democracy desired by everyone that rejects dictatorship gadhafi and his sons used to abuse libyan funds with no accountability and intervene in other countries domestic affairs. psychos insists he's being falsely accused by gadhafi his clan as a revenge for toppling the former dictator in twenty eleven but investigative journalists from the paris news website media part have been at the forefront of gathering documentary evidence to corroborate the corruption charges. the libyan affair in a spectacular way shows a nicolas sarkozy and his clan are in the middle of what can be called a match here style affair in the heart of politics there is a suspicion that a democratic state france might have been bought by a dictatorship in the

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the former french president nicolas sarkozy is detained by police over allegations of illegal campaign funding from libya. and this is sudan the world's last mail northern why dry no use just died in kenya. but we saw it in syria's eastern ghouta where the u.n. has now calling for urgent access to the civilians who've managed to get out of the own flavor as well as those who are trapped inside it says that many of the fifty thousand people who learned to get out in recent days a suffering from potentially fatal illnesses and although there was a lull in bombing for a few days the situation is escalating again and an estimated thirty two civilians were killed in overnight shelling by the regime about a dozen of those killed were children who'd been trying to shelter in a school the rescue group the white helmet says weapons like white phosphorous which abandon civilian areas have again been used then to hold a reports. under attack the northern part of what is now a divided rebel enclave is again a battleground there was a brief lull in the violence but the barge mint has resumed after

nicolas sarkozy only served one term as french president he swept to power in two thousand and seven promising a new style of leadership but left office amid allegations that his presidential campaign had received illegal funds from libya in two thousand and twelve a french news website published documents suggesting former libyan leader mohamed gadhafi had agreed to give sarkozy's campaign fifty million dollars today the editor says it's one of more than france's biggest political scandals. when the arab spring kicks off starting in tunisia and people start rising up there are real questions about this twenty eleven war where france with nicolas sarkozy overstepped the mandate of the united nations to the point where a regime was overthrown allowing for a dictator to be assassinated one can wonder if there was not a dimension of private war to destroy the evidence for thirty plus the allegations of overshadowed sarkozy's political career some people in france questioned why just months into his presidency sarkozy and find to get daffy to paris for a lavish state visit at the time ga

that's the former french president nicolas sarkozy still being questioned by police over allegations he received illegal campaign funding from the late libyan dictator. its alleged that good that he provided around fifty million euros sometimes in suitcases stuffed with cash to help solve because you get elected in two thousand and seven the right wing . he's also under destination for an illegal overspend in his failed. reelection campaign in twenty twelve will he denies all of the allegations n n y went tonight. is still being held. like he's a house we all three questions now for nearly twelve hours by. ney laundering and corruption access here and a question as to how much longer will police say continues to hold him they have forty eight hours in total. until thursday morning to decide whether or not they will continueue with this investigation of whether or not they w will releaimim cut down as you said at his old concerns the explosive allegations that buy into thousand seven. is a successful presidential campaign with partly funded by millions of years it came directly from m

million dollars worth of cash in suitcases from tripoli's or paris and handed that money to one of nicolas sarkozy's closest sade's well over the years sarkozy has always denied any links saw received denied that he's ever received any illegal funds from libya has always said that he's been the target of his opponents and critics it's been a political smear campaign but now that he has retired from politics it's only going to be a lot harder to use that as his line of defense. twenty three russian diplomats expelled from the u.k. in the wake of the source very nerve agent attack have left the russian embassy in london along with their families they've been thrown out in response to the poisoning of former russian double agents. and his daughter u.v.-a two weeks ago moscow denies any involvement and is expelling twenty three british diplomats in retaliation i think we can see some live pictures now of the plane where the twenty three russian diplomats will on the plane still there on the tarmac china's annual national people's congress is wrapped up with a warning from the president against anyone at

the former president of france nicolas sarkozy is to face trial for corruption and influence peddling he's accused of making phone calls to influence judges who are investigating alleged illegal financing during his two thousand and seven presidential campaign sarkozy's lawyers say he will appeal the decision separately he's accused of receiving campaign funding from the lately the leader moammar gadhafi. coffee outlets in california may soon have to warn customers about a potential cancer risk from their products court in the u.s. state their rule that a starbucks and other companies have failed to show the cancer risk from a chemical that is produced during the roasting process industry says levels in the drink a harmless to human health. the united nations says it's it appalled by the deaths of sixty eight people in one of venezuela's worst prison fires burial services have been held in valencia for some of the victims rights groups are blaming president nicolas maduro for not dealing with overcrowding and rising violence in prisons but so far there's been no official response from

fires there's been burial services in valencia for some of the victims former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial after being accused of corruption and influence peddling his lawyers say he will appeal against the decision the case centers on wiretapped phone calls in which sarkozy allegedly tried to sway judges who are looking into claims of illegal financing during his two thousand and seven presidential campaign in march and the president un yet has been sworn in comes a week after the former president or resigned because of growing health concerns the new president is seen as a close aide to sochi the last of australia's three disgraced cricketers has returned home following the ball tampering scandal in south africa vice captain david warner has been banned for twelve months or so the headlines the news continues keep it on al jazeera al jazeera world is next. thank. you. we. thank. you. lord please. do for us he said you know you have had a bad future if i don't see. through her mushy buffy without. a job you need to call. a time request. to the true question of the junction