he publicly asked sarkozy to give the money back to libya. he is thanking the french justice system for interrogating nicolas sarkozy. he says he has solid proof that sarkozy accepted money from libya. he is not been questioned by french investigators, but he hopes they will seek him as a witness. he is in libya, where he plans to run for president despite the fact that the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for him for crimes ainst humanity. >> 2 rival children's books about a bunny rabbit are battling it out for the top spot on the amazon bestseller list. >> mike pence's wife and daughter have written about a bunny. john oliver was so inspired he created a rifle book about mike pence' bunny. the book has shot to the top of the amazon bestseller list and be doubt the book by james comey. 'book iumbe not too sbby in i own right. mike pence's wife says she is not totally unhappy about the new book because they will be giving the proceeds to charity. for both books. so either way, it is a winner. >> you can find the stori

they say sarkozy is caught by the ghost of moammar qaddafi.kozy 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 been implicated. host: you also found a piece from the african press talking about the story. guest: totally different opinion from this piece, which is a website from guinea. in africa, t

french police place former president nicolas sarkozy under formal investigation in connection with ties to the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi. and tradition with a modern twist we look at an artistic or a viral that's drawing thousands of visitors to pakistan. has promised to safeguard the information of its two billion users after a major data breach it's the first time mark zuckerberg has publicly addressed accusations that fifty million users had their data harvested by a third party app and then passed. a political consultancy that firm cambridge analytic is accused of improperly accessing information to manipulate u.s. voters in the two thousand and sixteen election cycle burke says it's a breach of trust and says he's committed to stopping the use of the social media platform to interfere in elections including upcoming vote in brazil india and also the u.s. midterms and the facebook chief executive says he'd be happy to testify in front of u.s. congress if it was deemed he was the right person to appear katia lopez holding on reports. mark zuckerberg doesn't like giving inter

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 phone was a twenty five minute recorded confession detailing each of six explos

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

former french president nicolas sarkozy questioned by police about a campaign financing scheme. hello we begin in syria's eastern huta where there's been more fighting following a brief lull over the past few days local media and activists say thirty two civilians have been killed overnight in overnight shelling by the syrian regime volunteer rescue group the white helmet says banned weapons have been used including what appears to be phosphorus munitions in this video more than a thousand people have been killed in the past month as the government and its russian allies try to seize the area from rebel fighter. plane a father has more from beirut. there was a brief lull in the fighting for a few days but renewed the escalation as of late yesterday airstrikes targeting the main town of duma that's in the north of. towns in the southern part of this well are coming under heavy fire civilian casualties as well has been divided into three parts now the government the pro-government alliance managing to split the enclave into three. putting more and more pressure on the rebels to su

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

tacky dean's accusations helped end sarkozy's third presidential bid. you need. some sort of is probably what a disgrace you know the shamed to be giving publicity to a man who's been in prison he's been convicted numerous times of slander who is a liar. so cozies under formal investigation into the corruption cases but so far police haven't established a direct link between the former president and any illegal libyan money foreign campaign funding is banned in france nicolas sarkozy has always denied receiving any illegal funding formula known for the news he has accused his opponents look into school smear campaign now that he has retired from politics it will be harder for him to use that line of defense convincingly and talks about her own just. face in texas have sent a hazardous materials team to fedex step or near san antonio to investigate an explosion their package filled with nails and shrapnel exploded at the distribution center early on chewstick they said looking into whether it was linked to a series of bombings in boston explosion on tuesday is the

also coming up former french president nicolas sarkozy is the tane by police over allegations of illegal campaign funding from libya. how mass rejects palestinian president mahmoud abbas his accusation it was behind last week's attack on the prime minister. in the northern white rhino on the brink of extinction in kenya. a local activists say about a dozen children have been killed while attempting to shelter from airstrikes in a school in the syrian city of duma they say thirty two thirty two people were killed in overnight shelling by the syrian government to rescue group the white helmet says weapons like white phosphorous which are banned in civilian areas have again been used to has more from beirut. duma is coming under fire this is the main town in the northern pocket of the eastern enclave that enclave now divided split into three different pockets as a result of the pro-government alliances ongoing military offensive now coming under fire according to syrian military sources this is because talks have collapsed with the rebel faction in charge of. islam so the syrian military so

dean's accusations helped end sarkozy's third presidential bid. it. was a disgrace and you know the shamed to be giving publicity to a man who's been in prison he's been convicted numerous times of slander who is a liar so cozies under formal investigation into other corruption cases but so far police haven't established a direct link between the former president and any illegal libyan money foreign campaign funding is banned in france nicolas sarkozy has always denied receiving any illegal funding from libya and over the years he has accused his opponents or the political smear campaign now that he has retired from politics it will be harder for him to use that line of defense convincingly that are so popular on to syria known terrorists nigeria's military failed to act after multiple warnings that boko haram fighters were preparing to enter a town where they abducted more than one hundred schoolgirls that is the finding of an amnesty international report which says the army and police received at least five calls in the hours before the attack the k

french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya and. three months after barely surviving an impeachment president has resigned. the head of facebook has promised to restrict developers access to information after admitting that it mishandled belonging to fifty million of its uses. finally broke his silence five days off that the u.k. media expose the actions of cambridge and aletta the firm accused of improperly access and use information to manipulate u.s. voices and a post on facebook sokoban admitted that his. company made a mistake since data protection is promising an investigation into apps on the platform after a quote is allowed cambridge and other to access to information on millions of profiles that's despite only three hundred thousand users responding to the quiz well that quiz gave cambridge and that of her access to respondents friends as well and because of the facebook maintains that there was no data breach as permission was given by the original users zuckerberg says terms of service have since changed my ca

tacky dean's accusations helped end sarkozy's third presidential bid. some soldier is probably what a disgrace a university shamed to be giving publicity to a man who's been in prison he's been convicted numerous times of slander who is a liar. so cozies under formal investigation into other corruption cases but so far police haven't established a direct link between the former president and any illegal libyan money foreign campaign funding is banned in france nicolas sarkozy has always denied receiving any illegal funding formula known to the news he has accused his opponents or the political smear campaign now that he has retired from politics it will be harder for him to use that line of defense convincingly potential bottler al-jazeera paris . the white house says donald trump is not considering firing u.s. special counsel robert mueller this follows a series of tweets from the president which criticize investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election last week melissa subpoenaed the trump organization to turn over documents includ

french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya . and three months after barely survived an impeachment vote perrin's president as a result. had a facebook says he's committed to stopping the use of the social media platform to interfere in elections around the world including upcoming votes in brazil india and the u.s. midterms c.e.o. mark zuckerberg finally broke his silence five days after u.k. from cambridge analytical was accused of improperly accessing user information to manipulate u.s. voters well as confirm facebook has been issued warrants and says the company is cooperating with ongoing investigations but he says facebook has found no link between cambridge analytical and russia's. internet research agency says he'd be happy to testify in front of congress if he was deemed the right person to appear he also said he'd welcome additional government regulation of the social media platform again if it was the right call it. a small facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says since this data breach happened in two thousand and

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

we're back in two thousand and seven when nicolas sarkozy swept to power here in france he went on to serve one term in office who back then the then leader of libya colonel gadhafi was looking to try and reenter the world stage because libya had been something of a rogue state and gadhafi political prior at the time and in sarkozy he saw someone perhaps could help him do that and straight after the french elections only a few months after in two thousand and seven sarkozy invited gadhafi to paris it was an extravagant state visit it was quite controversial here at the time of the two 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

that's right or the former french president nicolas sarkozy is still in the building that you can see behind me here in just outside of paris he was taken here on tuesday morning for questioning now we understand he was allowed to go home last night to get some rest he was allowed out for about eight hours before being pulled back here this morning on wednesday and what police are trying to find out what they are investigating is whether or not nicolas sarkozy accepted illegal funds from libya back in two thousand and seven when he was running as a presidential candidate now police say that years cooperating fully he is onstream questions and this case opened five years ago but it is the first time that he's been arrested in connection with well he police say that he has forty eight hours and during that forty eight hours he will be questioned and after that magistrates will have to decide whether or not they will place him under formal investigation a lot of people will be wondering about the libyan connection in all of this in these accusations why why libya perhaps and what would t

former french president nicolas sarkozy has been taken into police custody just outside paris is being questioned in an investigation over irregularities in campaign finance of french police are looking into suspected illegal funding from libya sarkozy's two thousand and seven presidential bid. the chinese president xi jinping has warned against any effort to . divide china saying they will be punished by history she made the remarks during his closing speech in the annual parliamentary meeting it is seen as his strongest warning yet to taiwan which china considers its territory a loss we us president donald trump angered beijing after signing a bill that encourages senior officials to meet directly with taiwan's government should. 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 condemnation and the punishment

and more legal troubles for frances former president nicholas sarkozy. the usual rash of showers across southeast asia the biggest of which will be around malaysia little drier actually into indonesia the possibility of one of two showers coming into northern parts of java cos i said it to decrease they say the right not too far away pushing a little further north but back in the philippines lousy dry but always a possibility of one of two showers and we got some rain making its way across the gulf of thailand over the next couple of days could well turn increasingly wet in bangkok as we head towards the latter part of the weekend but i punish lessing some are also seeing some of those showers with the cloud that you can see still very much in place the sunday for java come down into australia and we've got the onshore breeze bringing some rather choppy. forces along the queensland coast and nasty conditions still tied up with this area of low pressure that is our old tropical cyclone on iris chance of some showers here than as we go on through saturday

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. duffy 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 are nicolas sarkozy and his clan are in the middle of what can be called i'm afeared 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 coming weeks and months we'll see that the case is a solid case book. nonetheless sarkozy is refusing to yield insisting he will not give even a centimeter of ground to those who would

i'm a fiend an issue with al jazeera live from doha also coming up former french president nicolas sarkozy is in custody he's being detained by police in an investigation into alleged illegal campaign funding. and it's time to get out of town for russian diplomats expelled in london the midnight deadline approaches. this is a john the world's last mail nor them why driving it is just i couldn't care. less asking syria's eastern ghouta where the un is now calling for urgent access both to civilians who fled the own place as well as those who remain trapped inside the u.n. says many of the fifty thousand people who've managed to get out in recent days a suffering from potentially fatal illnesses. and that's thirty two civilians were killed in overnight shelling by the government about a dozen of those killed children who tempted to take shelter in a school rescue group the white helmet says weapons like white phosphorous which are banned in civilian areas. then a harder records. show is under attack the northern part of what is now a divided rebel enclave is again a battleground there was a

french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya . and three months after barely surviving an impeachment vote peru's president has resigned. the head of facebook says he's committed to stop the use of these social media platform to interfere in elections including the upcoming votes in brazil india and the u.s. midterms c.e.o. mark zuckerberg finally broke his silence five days after a u.k. firm cambridge analytical was accused of improperly accessing information to manipulate u.s. voters zuckerberg has confirmed facebook had been issued warrants and was cooperating with ongoing investigations but he says no link was found between cambridge analytical and russia's internet research agency the facebook c.e.o. has said he'd be happy to testify in front of the u.s. congress if he was deemed the right person to appear as it was hot issue castro has more. mark zuckerberg doesn't like giving interviews but the pressure on the camera shy founder and c.e.o. of facebook was so great he had to do something he told the american media he

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

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

all someone who could help him do that and sarkozy shortly after his victory invited gadhafi to paris it was an extravagant state ceremony a state visit he was allowed to pick his tents near the lease a palace in the heart of paris the two countries went on to signed signed several trade deals now a few years later in two thousand and eleven sarkozy was suddenly one of the people at the forefront of the push to try and intervene in libya and what some people started to say off to the allegations and started to rise of the woods will perhaps sarkozy did that because he was trying to get rid of the gadhafi regime and any compromising information they might have about him now what sarkozy has told investigators over the last few days is that is not the case he is innocent he says that the gadhafi family created those allegations in order to try and smear his reputation and attack in peak oil as he had been at the forefront of that intervention in twenty eleven so this is the background of the context and these are some of the details that investigators magistrates will be looking at now

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

techie dean's accusations helped end sarkozy's third presidential bid. what a disgrace a university shamed to be giving publicity to a man who's been in prison he's been convicted numerous times of slander who is a liar so cozies under formal investigation into other corruption cases but so far police haven't established a direct link between the former president and any illegal libyan money foreign campaign funding is banned in france nicolas sarkozy is always denied receiving any illegal funding from libya i know that the news he has accused his opponents or the political smear campaign now that he has retired from politics it will be harder for him to use that line of defense convincingly that are so popular al-jazeera paris. twenty three russian diplomats and their families have left the u.k. in the wake of the poisoning of a former double agent in salisbury russian says moscow was behind the attack on service and his daughter two weeks ago both remain critically ill in hospital at the kremlin rejects the allegations and has retaliated by forcing the

former french president nicolas sarkozy goes on the offensive are validations everything campaign funding. struggling to stay on track only ask if there's a future for iraq's creaking neglected railway system. u.s. national security adviser a master has resigned from the trump administration will be replaced by john bolton who also advised george w. bush on foreign policy issues but master replaced michael flynn who was fired fourteen months ago alton is a so-called hawk who was previously advocated the use of military force against iran and north korea now. become almost customary for times of major personnel and policy decisions he made the announcement on twitter this is what he tweeted i am pleased to announce that effective ninth of april john bolton will be my new national security advisor i'm very thankful for the service of general master was that an outstanding job i'm always remain my friend. has more now on a master's time with the top administration general h.r. mcmaster will become the national security advisor he arrived at a tumultuous time just a month into his presidency

over the poisoning of an expiry and his daughter former french president nicolas sarkozy is held in custody for questioning over alleged campaign funding for libya's colonel gadhafi and the world's last mail northern white rhino dies in kenya leaving only two females of its subspecies. the crown prince of saudi arabia is due to arrive at the white house any moment now for talks on the working lunch with the u.s. president donald trump this is the scene live in washington d.c. mohamed bin someone is meeting with the president this part of a series of high level meetings in the united states over the next three weeks trump will reportedly urge the crown prince to find a solution to the gulf crisis with qatar which began ten months ago when saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt cut ties with qatar accusing though her of supporting terrorism an allegation that qatar rejects own fisher is live at the white house for us so i guess the gulf crisis one of the items on the agenda what else do you think will be the most pressing issues that the two men will discuss. well there's there's a lot of

former french president nicolas sarkozy is detained by police over allegations of illegal campaign funding from libya. and hamas rejects palestinian president mahmoud abbas's accusation that it was behind last week's attack on the prime minister. this is so done the world's last male northern was dry no just died in kenya. and i'm. james becomes only the fifth player in n.b.a. history to score five hundred forty point triple doubles story plus more later. i am. in syria's eastern guta a local activists say around a dozen children have been killed whilst they were attempting to shelter from airstrikes in a school they reckon that thirty two people in total were killed in overnight shelling by the syrian government the rescue group the white helmet say weapons like white phosphorous which are banned in civilian areas have again been used is purported lee what can be seen in this footage in go live that is in a holder our correspondent who is monitoring events in syria from neighboring lebanon in beirut and zaina with the syrian government now well on its way to retaking the whole of eastern

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

former french president nicolas sarkozy is based on a formal investigation over alleged campaign funding from libya. or lose president has resigned hours before congress was set to impeach him over corruption allegations. are on releases more than a hundred girls kidnapped last month from a school with nigeria. i'm sure. did a sports in iraq and a three decade long ban on hosting international matches as they face cats in a friendly in bastra warn that the program. head of facebook has admitted his company has made mistakes and its data protection to 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 u.k. media exposed the actions of cambridge and those ika. is in washington for us mike what did you have to say. well he published a lengthy statement on his facebook page making very clear that facebook was responsible for not protecting the data of its client base he blamed as well though cambridge analytical who you agree the accused of breaking trust with facebook because of its use and authoriz

tory, nicholas sarkozy is in the hot seat. he is being questioned as part of a campaign financing probe. it's time for the business news. you are starting with the latest on the scandal involving a political consultancy and facebook. facebook lost money. they had the biggest one-day fall in four years after the political columns and see cambridge analytica harvested premarket trading today, there is some recovery in the share price. inquiries of begun in britain and the ununited states about hw the informati was obtained and had on the electi. the uk's information director says she's sick and i want to examine their computers. we have the story. the research fi and facebook are at the center of a dispute over the collection and use of personal information online. a whistleblower says ambridge misuse facebook users and weaponize did. >> this was misappropriated and mishandled by this company. i think they need to be investigated for that. n n now thenfnformation commissioner is seeking a want to search their computer servers. t

mobile phone and that of his lawyer and they stumbled across a conversation 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 money in that campaign and he's already very likely to face trial over another case also involving illegal c

french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya . and three months after barely surviving an impeachment vote hiro's president has resigned. the head of facebook has promised tougher steps to restrict developers access to information after admitting it mishandled data belonging to fifty million of its users all c.e.o. mark zuckerberg finally broke a file and five days after u.k. media exposed the actions of cambridge. analytic or the firm accused of improperly access and use information to manipulate us voters in a post on facebook because i have admitted his company made mistakes and if the data protection he's promising an investigation into apps on the platform after a quick is allowed cambridge analytical access to information on millions of profiles that's despite only three hundred thousand users responding to the quiz the quest gave cambridge analytical access to respondents friends as well and because of this facebook maintained that there was no data breach as permission was given by the original users zuckerberg say

who live in express as sarkozy taken in french police custody of in libya funding of his two thousand and seven election campaign now get this it's reported that there were three suitcases though did with cash and that's really coming from kind look at all the allegations presumed we denied by carla bruni and former president sarkozy more than the refused to respond to the summons initially he wouldn't cooperate with the police while he is cooperating now in a sense but it's a pretty big deal again the figures are stupendously larger tennis until proven guilty ups ups might make the news the u.n. security council when they discuss libya today you could just say took money from going to absolutely and you got their first action because we have to be careful not to say that he's guilty of anything this compare that to how the russians have been treated in terms of the soul's pre events where we can assume guilt without proving evidence so there are some double standards going on here well of course some people said the libya war was not just about sarkozy although sarkozy presumably tur

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

, 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

here's what's coming up on the news hour the former french president nicolas sarkozy cozy to face trial over corruption allegations. deploys its army to help clean up one of the world's filthiest rivers coming up in sport australia's cricketers arrive home hears peter will tell us what they have to say. but first a funeral has taken place in the u.s. state of california for a black man who was shot dead while on arms by police hundreds of people attended the service for a twenty two year old steven clark civil rights activist al sharpton delivered the eulogy on march the eighteenth clark was pursued by officers who believed he had pointed a gun at them investigators found a mobile phone but no weapon near his body well after the funeral sharpton responded to comments by the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders who described the death as a quote local matter this is not only religion is a national problem the problem this president. president obama spoke in personal terms about ferguson about trayvon. said no wait a minute as they develop to police. this president has not a

the current libyan government is watching the sarkozy case with keen interest all of the sarkozy 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. sacco's insists he's being falsely accused by gadhafi his plan 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 are nicolas sarkozy and his clan are in the middle of what can be called i'm afeared 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 coming weeks and months we'll see that the case is a solid case book a pretty good remission nonetheless sarkozy is refusing to yield insisting he will not give even a centimeter of ground to t

still to come here on the news hour the former french president nicolas sarkozy goes on the offensive over allegations of illegal campaign funding plus. i hope that this gets to every single person as much as we can so we can finally get make a change in this country survivors of last month's florida school shooting prepared to join their supporters and for gun reform. school the russian authorities stressed that english football fans will be safe at june's world cup. in east pink skies by the time half. hour is the sun sets in the city of angels. spring should smell quite good for a while in central and southern china temps sucked about nineteen in shanghai and twenty four in hong kong we are of course bring it up inland when it reaches such wrong is turning into rain showing do you might for a change get a bit wetness star of course hides in the rain will spread it a bit further into the heart of china but it's still relatively warm i think hong kong will feel vastly different humid and twenty five rather than low humidity and twenty one as we were a couple of days ago south of this

the former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial accused of corruption and influence peddling his lawyers say he will appeal the decision and the case centers on phone calls and what's a cozy allegedly tried to sway judges. 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 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

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

all the sarkozy presumably turned against his benefactor would be the allegation that complicate was about oil the sweetest oil in the world and you've got a story here for the morning star about oil or it is demonstrations it's a variation on the oil theme this is about fracking morningstar says oil companies bid to silence until frack is crumbles turns out that u.k. oil and gas company has sought a sweeping injunction to try and stop protesters from excellent demonstrations of protest as in free speech well i'm actually equivocal about fracking but i'm not concerned about having frack as demonstrating that's their right they should be heard by the earthquakes or the earthquakes rather they see now you're in very cyber am i saying that the thing is that sixty thousand pounds on additional security has been paid which in itself is possibly ok it's a free speech question here are we living in a country where the right to demonstrate is being limited because these people get in the way of big business we have the right to protest that's going to this very tragic story redolent of the s