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♪ >> you are watching live from paris on." dust you are watching live from paris on "france 24."he government prepares to pensionis long-awaited reform plan. this year the largest migration of human beings on earth comes with the background of a deadly virus. and a million man march which urgingom a shia cleric fofor the full witithdrawal of l iraq.roops from welcome back. cabinet ministers are gathered in paris today for a meeting after which the government's long-awaited pension reform plans will be unveiled. this triggered the longest ever transport strike, which had been on hold. protests are underway right now. last night, i'd line unionists procession as a warning to president emmanuel macrcron they have not gone awa. while the main protest is underway in central paris, it is and france 24's correspondent is there. what is the mood like? emmanuel macron may be presenting reforms to the for their approval today, but the message from the street is the light is not over yet. the people here are adamant that they remind us the majority of the french public opposes these pension

paris shot of the take this role the twist into. as a friends over the last year and can offer again today by the looks of it thank you for watching this program if you want to keep up to date with any more of on the. social media kevin o. inciting all fun let you know that you didn't see it in the coming hours but we had a run about 32 minutes this is. international. league. and when you. look at. the it's. just a little. i've interviewed limits of you and world and rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happened but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered. military sexual trauma. i cannot remember how many times a young female marine that had been raped or sexually assaulted told me that she looked at these guys as your brother or the suspect as your brother it's a kin to what happens in a family with incest because you know in the military when we're functioning at our best coach he said of unit with brothers and sisters one of the band of brothers and sisters i mean we are family w

so over 100 airplanes bombing targets in and around paris. for the group, it had been turned into a german airfield. even before the group got there. four planes were shot down in the space of 20 minutes. >> that's actually not true. three of them were involved down and okay, i had wanted to to a story about the air force, but i wanted to do a story about the french resistance and write something that told the war of women in world war ii. it was a hugely overlooked concept and it came together that this book brings those threads together. so i had found the story about the 94th bomb group and i still don't have it and guys getting shot down, okay, what's that about? and i managed to find the one guy who became sort of the focus of my story, a guy named joe cornwall from washington state. he was a waste gunner in one of the b-17's and joe's aircraft, this is probably a little arcane, but b-17 bombers from world 2, generally carried, in addition to the crewman, they had on decide jefferson davis dixon. yes, he was from the south. jeff dixon wa

paris and work again. hello and a very warm welcome to news from the world of arts and culture let's have a look at what's coming up today. 'd 'd the book the hidden life of trees became a surprise international bestseller and now it's being turned into a film. and an artist based in stockholm who makes visual arts with product design. while the german president frank bato steinmeyer joined other world leaders in jerusalem to remember the victims of the holocaust on thursday there are also many other events marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945 the last surviving jews in europe back then with a hung garion jews as germany only occupied the country in 198414 year old shiny airman bides was deported to auschwitz but kept a diary that story is now revealed in berlin's german historical museum. kept a diary to her so 1st 75 years now it's going on show for the 1st time she was just 14 when she started to write it on the day the germans occupied hungary march 19944 in

is helping paris establish itself as a tech hub. japan is a bracing vertical farming techniques to meet its food needs to dition of farming is threatened by the aging population and migration from rural areas now there are hundreds of the sickle farms and many are in former industrial areas. in this form of factory near kioto 30000 heads of lettuce are growing under out official light with minimal human intervention the vegetable factory uses the latest vertical farming techniques 3rd ical farms may sound like science fiction but facilities like this are key to meeting rising food demand in expanding cities. and all they can or they can do called older mother we can produce in large quantities and in a stable manner all year round without being affected by climactic temperature changes. which also means comfort for the workers. who can gain more japan as a pioneer in vertical farming the spread company produces $11000000.00 heads of lettuce per year machines shift the lettuces around the factory to areas where the light temperature

to threaten paris with a list of punitive tariffs on goods such as french wine and cheese france argues it wants to hold 2 leading tech companies like apple google amazon and facebook to account under current law data collection is not classified as a taxable good even though selling data is central to the business models of us take companies of a more i'm joined by our correspondent lisa lewis in paris lisa u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross at france's move to tax digital companies stems from being envious of u.s. companies success is there something to it. well there's that's one way of seeing it really you know france is not really known for being a haven for big large tech companies rather for its literally their art and music however the french president over the past few years he's try to boost that image though for example supporting start up companies but i don't think this is the main argument for france to push for such a tax if you look back over the past year here in france there have been yellow vests protests every week people here are kind of really angry about the feel

another week another protest unions are back on the streets of paris still anger that president micron's pension reform plans this protest spillover into violence in the french camp. the world can see this is asking international. it was meant to be donald trump's fail safe plan to bring peace to the middle east just a day after he lifted the lid on his so-called deal of the century outrage among arab nations is prompting fears of a new intifada against israel hundreds of song the streets of jordan garza the west bank and even turkey and rage that washington's actions are sitting in president has flat out rejected the deal saying it's biased towards israel although trump insists the it is a win win solution. my vision presents a win win opportunity for both was. a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risks of palestinian statehood to israel's security was i. it's a great plan freule. it's a great plan for peace. i was. trying to plan for jerusalem to be israel's undivided capital is already a nonstarter for palestine israel would also get to make control over security and most pa

paris architecture bureau now pumps out one futuristic concept after another using their imagination and an interdisciplinary scientific approach to imagine the city of the future when. we started dreaming of how to turn cities into ecosystems we try to imagine neighborhoods as forests and buildings as inhabited trees able to produce all the energy. bill. should be able to transit back up into resources. that are killed by. high tech buildings that produce their own electricity as well as food for residents. the buildings forms are based on shapes found in nature. calls these proposed buildings ocean scrapers the idea is to make them with 3 d. printers using algae and plastic waste as building materials. avoids conventional steel and concrete in favor of natural or recycled resources. this twisting tower in taipei is already finished. this is how is that can withstand a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on the richter scale it's also agree with around 25000 trees and bushes that remove toxins from the atmosphere by photosynthesis. the scientists and agricultural engineers we worked with estim

commemorations are being held in paris to mark the anniversary.hese ceremonies today are following the same steps as those attackers did in january 5 years ago. tell us more about that. >> here was the last event to commemorate those attacks that began five years ago with that terrorist attack against the charlie hebdo headquarters. bylowed a couple days later an attack here at the kosher supermarket. a very small supermarket just behind me went 29 people were by a man who claimed to be carrying out the attack in the name of the so-called islamic state. here you can see flowers laid on the ground in honor to pay tribute to those victims. killed and thee additional person killed was the terrorist. several people injured here also during that attack. during this event to commemorate the fifth anniversary, you had several high-profile politicians . the justice minister, the mayor of paris as well as the former french president francois hollande who was in charge five years ago during those attacks. the need of unity. let's take a listen. france has t

we have paris stand he's a republican strategist and member of the advisory board of donald j. trump for president well welcome to you all paris let me start with you as a lifelong republican you tweeted that this entire impeachment is a joke this isn't about national security it's all politics. that's absolutely right i think the american people can see that this this entire process is not about the constitution it's about not about justice it's not about national security it's about the democrats in congress trying to subvert the will of the american people by them obstructing the will of the people through the election process and trying to get donald trump out of office through this impeachment process if it was so severe that if the case was so strong against him they would have had more articles of impeachment stronger articles of impeachment and speaker pelosi would have put them to the senate quicker but they did and she held it for political reasons and now in the end pietschmann trial we have adam shift have the nerve to talk about transparency and unfairness when and

are you talking about that obviously i am talking about paris you don't seem to come often to paris are i do i have my family in paris yes there with our from protests that a french tradition birds are 0 to 700 people injured across the country 17 and hurt a number of policemen injured among them and some casualties were due to this yellowjacket protest movement are you see it throughout the word right now middle class is wondering whether globalization is a good or bad for it for them and they need to get on for it and the government from the government they got 70000000000 euros program that he catered at increasing wages and increasing public services and they found out that the president has an increasingly authoritarian streak the last year's report by the national ombudsman spoke of an unprecedented number of preventive arrests so the long with the decline of public service is a policy of strength and security and repression taken root is a path work is ations from the official watchdog charged with defending the rights of french citizens and i strongly deny it we are in a democra

on january 7th 2015 in front of charlie endos headquarters in paris.terrorists targeted the magazine after it published caricature is of the prophet mohammed it took less than 2 minutes for them to shoot dead 12 people and injure another 11 this was the 1st of a series of deadly attacks that lasted 2 days. in the aftermath of the killing thousands took to the streets to share their grief world leaders gathered in paris vowing never to give way to terrorism. the phrase just so we shall be i am shelley became a global sign of solidarity the magazine bankrupt before the attack gain public support around the world. where you know if you look at this line we've been here since as this morning making a political statement. it was a very important to show solidarity for freedom of expression under those for the attack was a major blow to press freedom and france but beyond that the killing of of doe's journalists revealed that the country was ill prepared to respond to terrorist threats for the next 2 years france remained in a state of emergency thousands mo

josephine became the talk of paris 6 6. she didn't venture her own style playing on the audience's fantasies about africa and black women. the show was a triumph but opinion was divided. while culturally conservative critics perceive josephine as a symbol of decadence a liberal an up on guard reception through her as the heroine of a much needed european artistic revival. i collected press clippings they were my 1st french lessons she brings the breath of the jungle a primal strength and beauty to the tired stages of western civilization better still she is the black venus who haunted bunting there but also on a more cruel note laugh move you know is nothing more than lamentable transatlantic exhibitionism that's. it's back to the ape in less time than me descended from that . conservative circles where alarmed by the success of the new nick. they viewed it as a danger to moral decency and believe the french were better off visiting the colonial exhibition a display of the diverse cultures of france's colonial possessions t

thousands filled the streets of paris in protest against controversial pension changes and fronts president in my new all my presents his plan for reforming the system to this. described as torture an experiment told you cave national health service is under attack and a bus stop its kind evil challenge overprescribing life changing drugs for children changed and we have a ritual claimant in the case. the reason this is as it. is because it's never been taken in so we're looking at when asking young children. to consent to an experiment that truly can be i mean you said it and this is a landmark united nations ruling hands of refugees the right to asylum if they all threatened by environmental dangers the decision is creating fear in europe obnoxious immigration we put the issue up for debate. it's just another way to listen to exploit the u.n. but to. border on you know even at the most obvious level i can't believe and he wants one of the people who will be on the move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this. 3 pm here in moscow where if you are watching from in the wild

for example the other places in paris where they can go the authorities are saying there are dozens of beds available and that they are prepared for a possible outbreak because they've seen infectious diseases in the past and they've been testing similar measures in the past really and how is the french public reacting to all of this. well the newspapers obviously running headlines on this people are really right on social networks people are saying i'm quite scared i don't understand why the authorities are not testing. systematically people who are rife french athletes with the devices if you thought you said answer that question actually saying that you know there is a new campaign incubation period of several days so people need to watch their state of health and then get in touch with authorities people are really scared they they are saying you know we really need to be very careful to maybe stay home for a few days so lots to watch out for a complicated minute medical situation lisa lewis in paris for a sink you for that you can find more information on the virus and tips for

we are live from paris. the headlines this hour. protests turn violent in lebanon. 500 people wounded over the weekend and the country's president is hololding a securi meeting to discuss the crisis. dozens of protesters were wounded over in iraq. this as security forces clash with demonstrators in baghdad and the south of the country. and a third person dies in china as the numumber of people infected with the new virus increases. the outbreak coin siding with china's busiest travel period as millions criss-cross the country for the lunar new year. coming up, in business the world economic forium starts this week with climate change topping the agenda. and the report a also released showing the disparity between the rich and the global poor. plus prirince harry breaeaking silence e for the firirst time sincnce he anhis wife w were stripped of their royal titles. the duke of sussex saying there was no other option but to step back. stay with us. live fromm paris. but first over 500 people were wounded as protests turn violent in leb

micro is hosting a summit to discuss whether french soldiers should stay natasha butler reports from paris. in december the bodies of 71 soldiers from the asia nates a military base in the capital niamey a grim reflection of growing violence in asylum they were killed in an attack claimed by i saw in the west of the country this is i decided to come myself to give my nation's gratitude inconsolable but not all defeated to these men plucked from the affection of the loved ones in the prime of life for what they are to us our heroes our martyrs the french president emanuel micro visited me shared to pay his respects just 3 weeks earlier in paris mccord led a memorial for 13 francs. soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in mali more than $4000.00 french troops are fighting armed groups in the sile alongside forces from the share bikini faso chad mauritania and mali the g. 5 countries that is the casualties mount so his hostility against former colonial power france on the shin on toward the hospital i notice and to many countries an anti french sentiment is no prospering without any clear pol

right ok we've run out of time thank you all very much indeed emanuel of the pulley in paris. in the senate colleagues capital dhaka and emmanuel kwesi adding talking to us to dunce from dunstable just outside of london thank you all very much indeed for a very interesting conversation and thank you as ever for watching the program remember you can see it any time you like by going to the website al-jazeera dot com if you want more discussion as i said. but you may you can go to our facebook page facebook dot com for a slash a.j. inside story and there's always a choice as fair a handle is at a.j. inside story i'm dennis so for me and the whole team here in doha as i finish. the 21st century began with extraordinary economic growth across much of latin america. but since this halted in 2008 there's been a political shift to the right on a continent where socialism once thrived. politician goes on a journey to me leading left wing figures to understand why that politics have lost ground so dramatically. in latin america a giant in time oil coming soon 3 is off to cholera was di

is reporting for us there charlotte another day in paris another protest. yes that's right this protest is now the 8th nationwide protest that's been held since those rolling protests started on december 5th of last year this protest being run by a number of unions again against the pension reform while the public transport strikes have pretty much come to an end in paris and across the rest of france this is a momentum now to show that there are still people who are incredibly unhappy with those pension reforms just to bring you up to date as to where we are on these pension reforms they have been concessions given to the strikers in the protesters over the last few weeks including the fact that the government has removed the age of retirement which was going to be increased to 60 more an increase of 2 years it's taken that out of the document it was osa right to put it back in his ass you needs to come up with other solutions in the meantime but that document has been presented to the council of ministers here in france and it will now go to the national

the 1st cases confirmed in europe were in france 2 people in the capital paris and one in the city of bordeaux health officials there said the 48 year old patient had been travelling through china and passed through on which is the epicenter of the outbreak. france's health minister france's health minister says authorities are not ruling out finding new cases. to do we're going to do everything possible to contain this epidemic knowing that it is possible and even probable that there will be other cases particularly in europe just because they're on 20 other identified cases today doesn't mean that no other cases a circulating and for the latest on the spread of the virus i'm joined now by d.w. correspondent lisa lewis in paris who is at the sha hospital lisa what can you tell us about the patients in france well we have heard very little about the people who are here in this hospital behind me we know that the 48 year old man in the city of the door in south western france that apparently he's feeling better the health minister and yes resign has said that she would give an update o

no wonder paris is so.t's so dirty in other words at the street cleaners are doing their job or sleeping on the job. is it he he was subsequently fired as a result slash- this gentlemanan- and- this is first offense at the company question. caught wind of us this is the company they have contracts for paris the city. parís and- michael. he is. thank you. present presumption- restoring prejudice may i please just travel be all of the above get the guy a break that well anyway it comes court's he's been invited to a lot of tv channels under but p people are generally. generally kind of thinking now out you know. is. to create a bit of a common social media saying it was the only person who kind of how to address news us certain point in the day. some politicians. also have to much. yeah we don't relations please let me finish that james sorry about that. i was just taking a little bit. that. very interesting you know 01/16/ [captiing made psible by mocracy no] y: fronew rk, this i democry now! >> the presiden

originated in china 3 cases have also now been found in europe all 3 appeared in france in the capital paris and in the city of bordeaux all the visuals there are said a 48 year old pay. it had been traveling through china and passed through high that's the epicenter of the outbreak france's health minister said authorities are not ruling out finding new cases were meant to do we are going to do everything possible to contain this epidemic knowing that it is possible and even probable that there will be other cases particularly in europe just because they're on 20 other identified cases today doesn't mean that no other case is a secular. meanwhile here are the latest numbers in china the virus has now killed at least 41 people with more than 1300 others affected authorities are taking unprecedented measures to try to stop the spread of the virus travel restrictions remain in place in over a dozen cities in china and all of the countries 70000 movie theaters have also been closed the actions are urgent as millions are on the move over the lunar new year holiday. as the scale of the outbreak g

europe one patient is being isolated in this hospital in bordeaux and others are being treated in paris. was a moment to do we're going to do everything possible to contain this epidemic knowing that it is possible and even probable that there will be other cases particularly in europe just because the antennae of the identified cases today doesn't mean that no other cases a secular. scenes like this are becoming common as airports use thermal monitors to screen travelers for signs of fever around the world concern is heating up. well we have team coverage on the spread of the virus i'm joined now by correspondent lisa lewis she is in paris and. in beijing for us we want to start with lisa lisa the 1st european cases of the virus have now been confirmed those are in france what more can you tell us about the situation there in those infections well the authorities have said that all these 3 people recently traveled to china and then came back one person fell 48 year old man in what would do in southwestern france he apparently is from china is french and he has french nationality he wen

paris. is one of the 2 architects in the firm the family home was created especially for its owners a married couple with 2 daughters and their 2 dogs the kitchen and living room are located in a huge open space a big wooden structure house is the guest bathroom. these florida ceiling windows open onto the backyard garden area. is the view is the key element for this property and we designed it with a view in mind. that we came up with the idea of a living room that would take full advantage of the view. of this sort of design is typical for paris their trademarks are clear forms and minimalism another important element is the interaction between light and shade. in paris opened their office in pamplona in 2005. they're currently working on a new building for the city museum northwestern spain the special challenge was to make a modern design that blends into the old town. location was also an important factor for the concrete house. and. the source of inspiration for all our works is the lo

lisa lewis reporting for us in paris thank you. now prince harry and meghan markle say they're going to step back from the royal duties and spend more time in north america that shock announcement reportedly took even prince charles in the queen by surprise harry and megan's wedding in 2018 was thought to be the start of a new chapter for the british royal family of the honeymoon between the u.k. as tabloid press and the newlyweds did not last long. sent us this from what. the british media is devoting a lot of coverage to this unexpected announcement we have the day in the mirror they've been bowed they didn't even tell the queen and in the day he made their own 16 pages in the opinion piece they say that the old couple isn't mean to the road through bullets now some tabloid papers had a road targeted their young rose before prince harry in particular had fights with them he said that the behavior towards his wife of mines of to bullying and the fields with regards to his late mother you know you feel that history was repeating it

in paris. lastly some world news in brief police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in lebanon on friday $100.00 were injured as police broke up the crowd in the capital demonstrators are into a 3rd month a protest demanding economic reform and early elections the prime minister has been . expected to announce a new cabinet on friday but failed to do so. officers have responded with tear gas as a large pro-democracy rally in a central hong kong park spills on to the streets of protesters blocking roads and starting fires a significant armed police presence is visible on sunday as demonstrators defy an official ban on marching through the area hong kong continues to be rocked by violent rallies despite the original reason for their anger and extradition bill being withdrawn by beijing months ago. and efforts are underway to rescue animals survivors of bushfires that have ravaged south australia's kangaroo island area is home to unique as well as endangered species experts fear that

paris yeah you never know do you want a new year brings for the good. for the stay safe and happy in 2020 and continue watching us at all to international i hope my name's kevin 0 in on but with more just about half an hour's time to check it all social media all to dot com for all the latest on the big news today. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was right. here you know hold a shot they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he graham my arm and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u.s. military rape is a very very traumatizing tapping but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and the offender and almost 10 year