france, -- asir at air france, klm has tried to remain competitive. violet salaries have remained frozen for three years. richelle: those strikes causing headaches for travelers. turning to argentina, the central bank has been fighting a run on the national currency. brian: the measures appear to have had some effect as the argentine peso has stabilized momentarily. a run on the currency saw the peso hit a historic low against the dollar. the central bank raised the key interest rate up to 40% and reduced dollar reserve requirements. the company has sold off $8 billion from its currency reserve, and pushed others to do likewise. the most severe turbulence in the currency market since 2015. the government has forced banks to sell approximately $1.8 billion to the market, and this has calmed momentarily the exchange rate. let's get a check on the markets. how are they looking? brian: mixed at midday. travel and leisure stocks making some games. energy concerns lose ground. london's ftse 100 managing to stay positive. dax each offac and by 0.6%. oil is l

is in -- that air france is in. >> air france still suffers from an economic disease, lack of productivity, is a company that has to adapt to the market and the constraints. and to consumer expectations. >> as the strike continues, more flights are set to be canceled and as air france's bottom line weakens, so does their ability to meet demand. >> if you thought starbucks was everywhere, there is no getting away from them now. nestle, best known for nescafe instant coffee, but the rights to sell the products for more than $7 billion. >> coffee is a growing market and competition is fierce. nestle hopes that this alliance with starbucks will reinvigorate the brand. the swiss food giants will pay for the rights to products there goods -- to market their products in starbucks stores. this year, starbucks will earn about $2 billion in stores. the u.s. is the second biggest coffee market after the eu with a share of 16%. nestle has announced they will take on 500 starbucks employees who will manage that business from the u.s.. regulars still have to approve the deal. >> getting more on this wit

france's interior minister visited the injured and. once again tonight france has been hit. by twenty nine year old man has lost his life. i would first like to honor his memory the once again it is the youth of france is what it has been here tonight. his tribute joined that of the country's president emanuel macron who said france has paid once again the price of blood but did not give an end to the enemies of freedom all my thoughts go to the victims and those wounded in the knife attack parachuted tonight in paris as well as their relatives on behalf of all the french people i salute the courage of the policeman the terrorist france has been on high alert since a spate of large scale terror attacks through right twenty fifteen which have been claimed or inspired by the islamic state grape and have so far killed more than two hundred forty people. nothing more on the incident are going to cross over ninety delia correspondent lisa lewis standing by for us in paris lisa what is the latest on this investigation where you are while we are hearing that the police is looking i

and the foreign minister from france saying over the weekend that air france will disappear. and it has been cut to underperform from may 1. on the upside, the best performer on the stoxx 600 is upther mid-cap, ambu come 16.4%. it produces life support equipment. a record high in this session. quiteair technically not a mid-cap. a little bigger. still interesting to show. downgraded to accumulate and hold. analysts saying the first quarter was stellar and april was strong that it seems to be normalizing. there is also a feeling that a lot of the good news has been priced in. it is m&a monday. let us take a closer look at some of the deals driving markets in europe. joining us now from our deals team is sarah. talks and swiss re are collapsing. the writing was on the wall. they are very busy with other deals. >> the talks have been going on for about three months. is reportedly close to collapsing. there are talks about a minority stake. inn the talks came out february, softbank said it would want a 30% stake in the business. swiss re came out very quickly that it would not be

the dialogue may not help much given the precarious state air france is in. that. everyone still suffers from an economic disease a lack of productivity and stiffness verticality in the management it's a company that has to adapt itself to the market to the constraints of the market and the consumer expectations for it was that on the. as the strike continues more flights are set to be cancelled and as air france's bottom line weakens so does their ability to meet wage demands. well if you enjoy a glass of red wine you'd usually expect a drink of choice to come from red grapes but what about red meat wine while everyone there one yup well woman is making red wine out of beets which grow well their business is booming and orders are coming in from abroad. and wine making rwandan style instead of grapes they're using beetroot and it's ripe for the picking the whole family helps out a twenty eight year old and some top came up with the idea when she was on employed and looking for a job. i became friends with a german who knew how to make wine i told him i was interes

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to france undetected. he and his brother said now became an al qaeda sleeper cell. u.s. intelligence learned that one of the kouachis had visited yemen, and alerted the french, who started monitoring them. but they discovered nothing of the charlie hebdo plot. surveillance resources were already stretched, and the number of european extremists was about to surge. (explosion) >> narrator: in 2012, the war in syria dramatically changed the european security landscape. it spawned a new jadist movement, isis, which set out to be even more brutal than al qaeda. in 2014, the group formally split from al qaeda and declared a caliphate, or islamic state, and summoned all muslims to join them. (speaking spanish) >> (translated): and the effect of that call is brutal. it's... well, extraordinary. our investigations multiplied extraordinarily. >> narrator: dolores delgado is the chief counterterror prosecutor of spain's high court. as spain's liaison to france and belgium, she worked closely with her european counter

the jewish community in france is very old there is no reason to leave france this is my country and my language. i'm just as close to the french as i am to the israelis. but i never advised my children to go to israel but i wanted them to stay here longer. kids at school were calling them dirty jews. that's why they left with. verbal and physical abuse even assaults yele does not think the french authorities afford her and other jews adequate protection. all vets from my bed i was in poland and visited auschwitz the tour guy there told us a people without a land or an army can be destroyed anytime and i told myself if i want to do something for my people i'm going to have to learn how to fight and to do that i'll have to go to israel about. an estimated fifty thousand jews have left france to date among them are many young people now serving with israel's armed forces but others and france's jewish community are still skeptical there is really peace no movement and its french affiliates are dedicated to resolving the israeli palestinian conflict it says it's a mistake for families t

paris and france down over 1%. genie: rail passengers are facing another day of disruption. >> the 21st strike day in two months. have beenvices canceled as well as half of local trains. workers are unhappy with the overhault's plans to the company, which includes preparing opening it up for competition. the railway reform bill is being examined by a senate committee today. genie: unemployment is slightly on the rise here. >> new figures from thee french statistics office, raised by 0.3% to just under 9% in mainland france. the increase was expected after the rate dropped sharply in the previous three months. this change remains within the margin of error. let's move on with a look at some more of today's business headlines. barclays is said to be exploring merger options with other lenders, including standard charters. the financial times reporting private talks have taken place between directors at the banks. both banks refusing to comment for now. -- was notes planning a merger. shares in the bank down around 1%

chairman of business france, an agency which tries to bring foreign investments to france. he's a founding partner as well at european venture fund c-4. and he was vice president for apple for the emea region. is france more attractive than, say, a year ago, pascal? pascal: the figures are telling us this, right? in fact, the u.s. have been not just investors. we just had a report that we had an excess of 39 projects, maintaining or creating up to 33,000 jobs. the u.s. took back the lead in front of germany. so the concept of being a much more welcoming to foreign investors is really playing completely, right? vonnie: we know that president macron's ratings have been going down because of some reforms, which make him probably more popular with companies. we have heard about strikes and things like that. is that detering anybody from coming to france? pascal: after a year in office, not such a good rating. i know there is no question, when you do reforms, you create that. and the old jobs is going to be the one next year to demonstrate that we need the reforms to continue to

france and germany seem a good mix but not so fast that mccambridge is going to tell us why france is the reason germany won't win the world cup. lovely you might not like to admit it but germany are the hot favorites to win the world cup this summer and for good reason they're already the reigning world champions and as we discussed in the previous episode they've got the squad the manager and the winning mentality to go all the way again this summer. but then again this is a world cup and they'll be a host of nations who consider themselves just as talented and just as well prepared as the mantra so let's take a look at the competition dealt three teams which i think will pose the biggest threat to germany in russia this summer first up you guessed it brazil brazil have trained a lot since that famous seven one thrashing in belo horizonte but the desire for revenge still burns as hot as ever all brazil were ponderous in a time four years ago thanks to the presence of the burley. but the emergence of the twenty one year old gabrielle haye zeus' means they now have a potentially well

and france's president has arrived in new caledonia it's about a mcallen's first visit to the french territory in the south pacific ahead of an independence vote set for november the majority of the island's indigenous contact ethnic group supports a full break with france the president's office says it will not express a position on the vote and will focus on commemoration and remembrance during his visit. angie thomas is at a rally in new me and hi andrew says this is it does come a quite a crucial time but what does the cross hope to achieve. and as you say the referendum that comes in november of this year will be a really important one here does new caledonia split from france become an independent country or does it stay with france at the moment they say remote territory in the south pacific it's part of france it's part of the european union people have votes in presidential elections they same deputies to the french

france's interior minister visited the injured. once again tonight france has been hit. by a twenty nine year old man has lost his life. i would first like to honor his memory once again it is the youth of france who has been hit tonight. yes. his tribute joined that of the country's president emanuel macron who said france has paid once again the price of blood but did not give an end to the enemies of freedom all my thoughts go to the victims and those wounded in the knife attack parachuted tonight in paris as well as their relatives on behalf of all the french people i salute the courage of the policeman the terrorist france has been on high alert since a spate of large scale terror attacks through right twenty fifteen which have been claimed or inspired by the islamic state great and have so far killed more than two hundred forty people. but more on the incident are going to cross over in a to detail you correspondent lisa lou is standing by for us in paris lisa what is the latest on this investigation where you are while we are hearing that the police is looking int

france and germany seem a good mix but not so fast mccambridge is going to tell us why france is the reason germany won't win the world cup. lovely yogi loves might not like to admit it but germany are the hot favorites to win the world cup this summer and for good reason they're already the reigning world champions and as we discussed in the previous episode they've got the squad the manager and the winning mentality to go all the way again this summer. but then again this is a world cup and they'll be a host of nations who consider themselves just the talented and just as well prepared as the mantra so let's take a look at the competition dealt three teams which i think pose the biggest threat to germany in russia this summer first up you guessed it brazil brazil have trained a lot since that famous seven one thrashing in belo horizonte but the desire for revenge still burns as hot as ever brazil were ponderous in a time four years ago thanks to the presence of the burley blunt but the emergence of the twenty one year old gabriel haye zeus' means they now have a potentially well co

france and germany seem a good mix but not so fast that mccambridge is going to tell us why france is the reason germany won't win the world cup. lovely you don't like to admit it but germany are the hot favorites to win the world cup this summer and for good reason they're already the reigning world champions and as we discussed in the previous episode they've got the squad the manager and the winning mentality to go all the way again this summer. but then again this is a world cup and they'll be a host of nations who consider themselves just as talented and just as well prepared as the mantra so let's take a look at the competition del three teams which i think pose the biggest threat to germany in russia this summer first up you guessed it it's brazil brazil have trained a lot since that famous seven one thrashing in belo horizonte but the desire for revenge still burns as hot as ever all brazil were ponderous in a time four years ago thanks to the presence of the burley blunt but the emergence of the twenty one year old gabrielle haye zeus' means they now have a potentially cost t

france allowed the americans to keep permanent cemeteries in france. for each bigs one battle in france. mr. yockelson: it was a gruesome task for the grs teams. the bodies decomposed and were difficult to identify because of the day composition or the fact that some of the bodies were so badly damaged that they did not recognize and were not able to identify the remains. job.oizan: that is a sad it was done in 1919, 1920. mr. yockelson: it took long. the americans suffered more than 15,000 casualties until the armistice. ,000 casualties until the armistice. here, you see them trying to give some sort of proper burial. mr. moizan: probably looking for a doctor or something. mr. yockelson: a number of civilians worked for the armies in drs detail. rolling] they were carefully wrapped and placed into wooden coffins for shipping. [film rolling] then, the coffins were sent back to the u.s. for transport by frail -- by rail. mr. moizan: it was for free. burialselson: yes, the were arranged for funeral homes. the coffins would be loaded. in the u.s., familie

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well the message from france today is very much that the u.s. may be out of this iran deal but france wants to stay in and wants to preserve it so the french foreign minister speaking on french radio a short while ago said that the french president about all michael will be speaking to the iranian president will be reaffirming his commitment to the deal and trying to work out how they can now go forward to try and maintain it we know that it was also made comments very much keeping in line with france's position over this crisis over the last few days saying that for france this deal is the best that there is out there is stopping iran from developing nuclear weapons it is ensuring a certain amount of peace and stability in the region and that is why this deal must stay knowledgeable admitted that there are areas which still need to be discussed with iran such as iran's but istic missile program and that they can be discussed in due course but really the priority is to keep this deal and what we saw over the last twenty four hours is really a lo

of walkouts at air france. staff demanding a 5.1% pay raise in 2018. ceo resigned friday after an online staff referendum rejected management's proposal of a 7% raise spread out over four years. the strikes of already cost the company over 300 million euros. the mayor raised the alarm warning that air france could disappear. >> if the company does not make the necessary effort to remain competitive, and france will disappear. i do not want that to happen. i appeal to the sense of responsibility to everyone involved. flight crew and ground staff. those who think that whatever happens and the state will come to the rescue, are rock. -- are wrong. >> book on the fallout are we seeing? -- what kind of fallout are we seeing? >> shares of air france are taking on the stock exchange. we see those figures down 10.3%. the european index is slightly higher midday with rising oil prices. taxes is well 4% -- is up 4%. >> air france is not the only transport company jake and by the strike. it is also a big day for the rail

," auncer: "france 24 different take on the news. anchor: you're watching "france 24." i'm genie godula. these are the headlines. north korea has reportedly fallen -- reportedly gone to stopwith a pledge nuclear testing. investigating the downing of a flight over eastern ukraine three years ago say it was a russian missile from russia's armed forces that shot down the plane. russia has always denied that is the case. french president emmanuel macron opens the tech conference in paris. facebook and ibm are there, as well as startups from around the world. also coming up this hour, the trump administration has launched an investigation into auto imports, once again raising concerns of global trade war days after stepping back from the brink with china. as "france 24" starts broadcasting today in vietnam, take a closere look at the ties that have bound the countries together for generations. first-come, our top stories live first, our top stories live from paris. ♪ genie: north korea has followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels used for nuclear testing. that comes

france and germany seem a good mix but not so fast and mccambridge is going to tell us why france is the reason germany won't win the world cup. lovely yogi loves might not like to admit it but germany are the favorites to win the world cup this summer and for good reason they're already the reigning world champions and as we discussed in the previous episode they've got the squad the manager and the winning mentality to go all the way again this summer. but then again this is a world cup and they'll be on. most of the nations who consider themselves just as talented and just as well prepared as dimentia so let's take a look at the competition dealt three teams which i think pose the biggest threat to germany in russia this summer first up you guessed it brazil brazil have changed a lot since that famous seven one thrashing in belo horizonte but the desire for revenge still burns as hot as ever the old brazil were ponderous in attack four years ago thanks to the presence of the burley blunt but the emergence of the twenty one year old. means they now have a potentially low cost talen

well still to come on the day france getting tougher on terror our reporter gets exclusive access to new prison blogs to would be jihad inspired is isolation the answer to radicalization i'll ask you just a few minutes on the day. well a fresh suicide attack by a family has indonesia's second largest city reeling once again the bombers rode motorbikes to a police station and then blew themselves up now word comes a day after another militant family staged coordinated suicide attacks on three churches killing twelve people so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility both families brought young children along to the attacks surveillance cameras captured the moment of the blast. an eight year old girl who was with the attackers that police headquarters reportedly survived it's the fourth suicide bombing in syria by a since sunday authorities say all attacks were carried out by families including four children who were killed. in. this act of terrorism is really beyond the limits of humanity it has inflicted casualties on people on police offices and on innocent children including

talking of stocks shares in air france tumbled more than thirteen percent on the paris stock exchange that following the departure of the troubled airline c.e.o. . announced his resignation on friday night after staff rejected a paid deal this pilot away for strikes that have cost the carrier three hundred million euros as it aims to cut costs to compete with rivals france's economy minister said on sunday that the airline survival was at stake and the government would not step in to rescue it the air france crisis is just one of many challenges the government is currently dealing with one year into macross presidency opinions are divided whether his sweeping reforms are good for the country. economists say emmanuel mccall has changed more in twelve months than his predecessors did in years. despite heavy resistance he has managed to implement reforms pushing for more flexibility in france's rigid job market. and

he wants to show that france is changing, france is known as having terrible labor laws, very hard to hire and fire, you pay money up front in terms of employee taxes. he is trying to change the narrative, saying we are a place you do not have to leave, because they have fantastic mathematics and science engineering focus to schools and universities, but they lose all of their tech talent notably to silicon valley, one of the highest presence of foreign tech talent in silicon valley is from france. it is noted that 60,000 people are from france there, so he is saying, do not go away. ability of businesses here. -- build your businesses here. come here and invest. they have launched a big ai focus, artificial intelligence with the samsung investing, the likes of the mind, part of google to invest. so they are investing along with of them. there is a fund, 10 billion euros, that they are managing. part of that is going to artificial intelligence, 1.5 billion euros going toward artificial intelligence, city is try to change the narrative. saying this is a good place to live, work, build

the town halltes is vowing to help him in his quest to settle down in france. he met with president and mala macron well. they wonderful and for a young man who arrived in france a few months ago. -- aççagg1ab;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ1 liliey: oh, jejesus, it't's the lawyer. [laughter] you can hear people turning to each other, "hey, do you know if there's wifi here? so,o, just type--type that up. [laughteter] so, uh, before i start the stuff here, just wanted to do some thank-yoyous. takes a lot of wok to put these events together, as everybody knows. and not just for the speakers, but also max, cameron, torin, dylan, zaba, everybody that has helelped put this--put this event together and has done so for several years.

france's interior minister visited the injured. left once again tonight france has been hit. by twenty nine year old man has lost his life. sure i would first like to honor his memory once again i'm in moore it is the youth of france is what it has been hit tonight else france has been ohio there since a spate of large scale terror attacks the right twenty fifteen which have been claimed or inspired by the islamic state group and have so far killed more than two hundred forty people well for more we're joined now by d.w. correspondent lisa lewis who is in paris so he said the suspect was apparently known to authorities as a security risk so while were police unable to prevent this attack while he was known to police for being on a watch list for possibly radicalized people on that watch list you've got more than twenty five thousand people and the people on that is unknown to police because they could be radicalized in this case we understand that he was on the list because he knew a man whose wife had gone to syria now obviously that's not really a crime for him you can't fa

france correspondent joined as early as from paris where the details. have been in this very busy district of paris touristy places where there are a lot of restaurants lots of bars here there's the attack happened a bit before nine pm a moment where all the regions and tourists were out side so basically people were eating in restaurants having times of friends and man assault randomly several people with a knife according to witnesses the man was walking in the streets crazy studying every people he met on his way then he ran towards police officers apparently should seeing kill me or i q several people heard him saying a lot of work bar then he has been killed by police officers the metro lines of the area has been closed other people were blogs also in restaurants and bars so it's was really a panic scenes there we know that an investigation is now opened by the terroristic section in paris we just heard that. islamic state claimed responsibility for this attack president mccrone tweeted that france had again paid a high price but stood firm against

france and germany seem a good mix but not so fast mccambridge is going to tell us why france is the reason germany won't win the world cup. lovely you might not like to admit it but germany are the favorites to win the world cup this summer and for good reason they're already the reigning world champions and as we discussed in the previous episode they've got the squad the manager and the winning mentality to go all the way again this summer. but then again this is a world cup and they'll be a host of nations who consider themselves just as talented and just as well prepared as the mantra so let's take a look at the competition three teams which i think pose the biggest threats to germany in russia this summer first up you guessed it brazil brazil have trained a lot since the famous one thrashing in belo horizonte but the desire for revenge still burns as hot as ever brazil were ponderous in a time four years ago thanks to the presence of the burley blunt but the emergence of the twenty one year old gabrielle means they now have a potentially world class talent leading the line bene

the jewish community in france is very old there's no reason to leave france by this is my country and my language is. the i'm just as close to the french as i am to the israelis. but i never advised my children to go to israel but i wanted them to stay here longer. but the school were calling them dirty jews we were only nice that's why they left but with. verbal and physical abuse even assaults yell does not think the french authorities afford her and other jews adequate protection. all vets well i bet i was in poland and visited auschwitz the tour guy there told us a people without a land or an army can be destroyed anytime and i told myself if i want to do something for my people i'm going to have to learn how to fight and to do that i have to go to israel about this i had. an estimated fifty thousand jews have left france to date among them are many young people now serving with israel's armed forces but others and france's jewish community are still skeptical of this israeli peace no movement and its french affiliates are dedicated to resolving the israeli palestinian conflict it

well still to come on the day france getting tougher on terror our reporter gets exclusive access to new prison blogs to would be jihad inspired is isolation the answer to radicalization how last just a few minutes on the day. a fresh suicide attack by a family has indonesia's second largest city reeling once again the bombers rode motorbikes to a police station and then blew themselves up now word comes a day after another militant family staged coordinated suicide attacks on three churches killing twelve people so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility both families brought young children along to the attacks surveillance cameras captured the moment of the blast. an eight year old girl who was with the attackers that police headquarters reportedly survived it's the fourth suicide bombing in syria by a since sunday authorities say all attacks were carried out by families including four children who were killed. in. this act of terrorism is really beyond the limits of humanity it has inflicted casualties on people on police offices and on innocent children including the perp

the dialogue may not help much given the precarious state air france is in. the hall so if one still suffers from an economic disease a lack of productivity stiffness verticality in the management it's a company that has to adapt itself to the market to the constraints of the market and to consumer expectations for it was a comedy. as the strike continues more flights are set to be cancelled and as air france's bottom line weakens so does their ability to meet wage demands . but if he thought starbucks were everywhere there is definitely no getting away from the now swiss food giant nestlé best known for its instant coffee mess cafe has struck a mega deal with starbucks buying the rights to sell the company's products and more than seven billion dollars. coffee is a record league growing market and the competition is fierce nestle hopes this make it alliance with starbucks will reinvigorate the brand to swiss food giant will pay for the rights to market and sell starbucks products outside of starbucks chains like in restaurants and supermarkets this unit of

france's interior minister visited the injured. once again tonight france has been hit. by a twenty nine year old man has lost his life. i would first like to honor his memory once again i mean more it is the youth of france is what it has been here tonight. his tribute joined that of the country's president emmanuel macron who said france has paid once again the price of blood but did not give an end to the enemies of freedom all my thoughts go to the victims and those wounded in the knife attack parachuted tonight in paris as well as their relatives on behalf of all the french people i salute the courage of the policemen the terrorists france has been ohio there since a spate of large scale terror attacks the right fifteen which have been claimed or inspired by the islamic state great and have so far killed more than two hundred forty people. but for more on the incident who are going to cross over in a correspondent lisa lui standing by for us in paris lisa what is the latest on this investigation where you are while we are hearing that the police is looking into poss

. >> one of the france 24 correspondents around the world. genie: time for 60 minutes live around the world. the headlines. attack in belgium. a civivilian and twowo police officers killed in the heart of liege before the attacker is shot dead himself. he tells from belgium coming up. ybia's rivall for a rivalaris conference to bring peace. witha has been wracked disagreements and rival governments. they agree to hold parliamentary elections in dececember. and italy'y's new prime ministe, a former imf official,l, is buildingng his cabinet, almost certain to be rejected by populists whose own bid was collapsed, setting up the stage for new elections in the fall. out of belgium, earlier today, a man shot dead two police officers in the center of the city o of liege. a civilian was killed as well before the attacker was shot dead himself. he is being treated -- it iss being treateted as a suspected terror attack. peter: gun shots reverberated in the center of liege, belgium. it appears police officers were trying to perform a routine check on an

this is this -- genie: france 24. the headlines. armenian protesters shut down rose to the capital and the airport, as morales are held today. that is after the parliament blocked a bid from protest leader nikol pashinyan to become prime minister. over 100 people were rescued in srance after mayday protest turned violent. people dressed in black with quds force a mcdonald's after stepping into the traditional union-led march for workers rights. the french president condemning the violence, saying may one is for workers, not for ligands. making thisron comets from australia, where he is meeting with leaders. business,g up in facebook i is trying to move on frfrom months of turbulence. the social networking giant announcing a dating feature to build meaningful relationships, and not aimed at hooking up. visitings aimed at venice over the weekend had to pass the metal gates to enter the city that famously has more tourists than residents. that story coming up. first, more live from paris. we will start first in the u.s., where one of d

to france undetected. he and his brother said now became an al qaeda sleeper cell. u.s. intelligence learned that one of the kouachis had visited yemen, and alerted the french, who started monitoring them. but they discovered nothing of the charlie hebdo plot. surveillance resources were already stretched, and the number of european extremists was about to surge. (explosion) >> narrator: in 2012, the war in syria dramatically changed the european security landscape. (shouting) it spawned a new jihadist movement, isis, which set out to be even more brutal than al qaeda. in 2014, the group formally split from al qaeda and declared a caliphate, or islamic state, and summoned all muslims to join them. (speaking spanish) >> (translated): and the effect of that call is brutal. it's... well, extraordinary. our investigations multiplied extraordinarily. >> narrator: dolores delgado is the chief counterterror prosecutor of spain's high court. as spain's liaison to france and belgium, she worked closely with her eur

france's interior minister visited the injured. once again tonight france has been hit. by twenty nine year old man has lost his life. and i would first like to honor his memory once again i mean more it is the youth of france would it has been hit tonight. his tribute joined that of the country's president. who said france has paid once again the price of blood but did not give an end to the enemies of freedom all my thoughts go to the victims and those wounded in the knife attack parachuted tonight in paris as well as their relatives on behalf of all the french people i salute the courage of the policeman the terrorist france has been on high alert since a spate of large scale terror attacks through right twenty fifteen which have been claimed or inspired by the islamic state great and have so far killed more than two hundred forty people. now to some of the other stories making news around the world . north korea says it will begin dismantling its nuclear test sites in the coming weeks states media said journalists from several countries would be invited to witness th

and germany and france need to take charge and they need to lead europe. and there's never been a union within a larger region without head to monica partners and germany and france need to assume hegemonic status and step up as the leading powers in europe. may until france has understood the opportunity it has together with germany europe won't make any progress. openly for. the opposite of this is happening it feels as though europe is winding down in britain is exiting eastern european countries are saying sure we'll take the money but we don't want any responsibilities italians are saying there should be a parallel currency that allows them to get out of debt or can the e.u. as we know it be salvaged so. no one understands what italy is on about let's wait and see. eastern europe is saying it wants to be heard. in this respect the us is playing an unfortunate role because it went out of its way to convince these countries to be terrified of russia and it played a not inconsiderable role in the ukraine problem. we need to talk very clearly about u.s. i

the dialogue may not help much given the precarious state air france is in. the. last one still suffers from an economic disease a lack of productivity stiffness verticality in the management it's a company that has to adapt itself to the market to the constraints of the market and to consumer expectations for it was that only. as the strike continues more flights are set to be cancelled and as air france is bottom line weakens so does their ability to meet wage demands. now whatever members or seem to be members of the british royal family web media attention is sure to follow suit when the fiance of prince harry meghan markle wore a pair of welsh chains to visit cardiff the company found itself swamped with a lot. the sleepy town of cardigan on the irish sea coast could be on the brink of an economic revival a local company which makes denim jeans has rocketed into the global spotlight after meghan markle disappeared cardiff with her fiance prince harry. underneath that coat the royal bride to be was sporting locally made denim the world's media noticed. nationa

in fact, france allowed the americans to keep permanent cemeteries in france and the american will keep one for each big battle basically in france. >> it was a gruesome task for the grs teams because many of the bodies had decomposed and were difficult to either identify, because of the decomposition, or the fact that some of the bodies were so badly damaged by shell or machine gunfire, that in some cases they didn't recognize and weren't able to identify who the remains were. >> that's a sad job. that was done 1919/1920. >> it took so long. the americans suffered more than 50,000 casualties on the battlefield from the beginning of combat until the armistice. another 50,000 died of disease like the influenza. here you see them piecing together the skeletons and trying to give some sort of proper burial. >> yeah. and probably looking for a doctor or something to -- >> there were a number of civilians who worked for the army in grs detail. they were carefully wrapped and placed into wooden coffins for shipping. and then the coffins if sent back to the u.s. were transported by rail to i g

well still to come on the day france getting tougher on terror our reporter gets exclusive access to new prison blogs to a lot of would be jihad inspired is isolation the answer the radicalization i'll ask you just a few minutes on the day. well a fresh suicide attack by a family has indonesia's second largest city reeling once again the bombers rode motorbikes to a police station and then blew themselves up now word comes a day after another militant family staged coordinated suicide attacks on three churches killing twelve people so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility both families brought young children along to the attacks surveillance cameras captured the moment of the blast. an eight year old girl who was with the attackers that police headquarters reportedly survived it's the fourth suicide bombing in syria by a since sunday authorities say all attacks were carried out by families including four children who were killed. in. this act of terrorism is really barbaric and beyond the limits of humanity it has inflicted casualties on people on police offices and on inno

what was our mission in northeastern france? >> our first, second and third division -- they were rushed to the front in the end of may 1918 because the germans had launched an offensive and they'd broken through the french lines. there was a sense of panic and emergency and we wanted to get to the front as quickly as possible to stop and halt the germans. general pershing with french commanders are saying now, we need to stop the germans and then we need to launch at least a couple of successful offenses to show that we had the hitting power to begin to push them back. >> who was john pershing? >> john pershing was commander of the expeditionary forces and he was a man who lived by willpower. he was under a lot of pressure at this time. his whole family had been killed in a fire just before the war began, before we noted the war in 1918 except for his son, he's a very rigid, very iron-willed individual who is determined to build a fully american army under american command to show that we have the ability to do this so that we

is a member of the european parliament a leash law and she is talking to his evening from stross for france it's good to have you on the show i want to ask you about these accusations that we're hearing in italy of the president basically sabotaging the will of the people from where you are sitting tonight does this look like an attack on democracy. well actually we are in the middle of probably the most serious and seduce a crisis that we have ever gone through but the president up there in public made a difficult choice yesterday but absolutely in the framework of his constitutional prerogatives according to the constitution the minister is are nominated by the president of their public on a proposal by the designate the prime minister yitzhak yes the power to accept them or refuse some of them on discuss them and also in the end there are precedents in history of similar cases in which a minister was refused by the president there public but he was simply changed and then the government was formed anyway so what is new is that this time the forces that were trying to put on the jury he r

earlier, we were mentioning that today is may day in france. there have been calls for mass protests that will start around 2:00 p.m. local time. he should bring together many of the groups that have been on strike against president macron's business minded reforms. the biggest showing could come from state r rail workers, w who have been holding a rolling every fiveout of days. may is traditionally a big month for protests, particularly on labor day. francer: mayday in usually sees workers take to the streets en masse. this year, organizers are hoping for a record turnout. for weeks, a number of protest movements and swept the country in the face of emmanuel macron's reform plans. many seem to be losing momentum. the railway strike appears to be losing steam by the week. at its peak month ago, the strike mobilized 77% of train drivers. now, less thanan 50% of conducts are still protesting. parallel t to this, several univiversities saw t their camps occupied by students up in arms over a proposed admissions reform. but the government has slowl

tonight in march france announced that it was going to legislate. further sexual violence to cut down on sexism and included in that legislation was due to be an age of consent for sexual activity here in france and that age of consent was set to be at fifteen now the reason that element of the law was put in because they was outraged often choose cases emerged of an eleven year old girls who were deemed not to have been great. by adult men because they don't think of hers they don't been threatened there have been no violence or surprise when that incident had taken place well now the law is being debated in the national assembly on tuesday and that's element the age of consent to fifteen has now been taken out of this nor critics say that that mean it's been watered down that it was less protection for children and actually creates new legal loopholes for child rapists this is what they've said advocate according to our to go to child abuse could be considered an advance not a crime. mr president there are two hundred fifty people who demand the w

small amount of our children in france. could imagine russia because they could travel for years don't struggle and it will go. on the mon dish them all they were they grew out of well received a lot of that promise to listen into peds here and the wolf listening to fairy tales about marriage to the past and stories about him being with him then you know all that i know that many russians read three musketeers in their childhood. his goodness he made all that cultural heritage brings us together because because we have common european root is going to come out completely european heritage if we see ye. wrong and when history becomes more complicated. we need to find ways to simplify. it don't just let go to force it all in order to define differences as well as still find common ground was one of the fun of all of this for messing with you if you don't i would like to us to for. find all these solutions in order to build a common feature in this complicated thank you dear vladimir posner and now we're moving on to q. and a

the dialogue may not help much given the precarious state air france is in. the. last one still suffers from an economic disease a lack of productivity of stiffness verticality in the management it's a company that has to adapt itself to the market to the constraints of the market and to consumer expectations for it was that. as the strike continues more flights are set to be cancelled and as air france's bottom line weakens so does their ability to meet wage demands. when if you enjoy a glass of red wine you'd usually expect a drink of choice to come from red grapes but what about red meat wine well a real one to one yup well woman is making red wine out of beets which grow well their business is booming and orders coming in from abroad. winemaking rwandan style instead of grapes they're using beet root and it's ripe for the picking the whole family helps out twenty eight year old sometime came up with the idea when she was unemployed and looking for a job. i became friends with a german who knew how to make wine i told him i was interested in wine making so he t

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marine monument in france. mr. yockelson: after the fighting had ended, graves registration service teams, which were usually led by a chaplain, would go to the temporary burial sites, which were there where the soldiers well, and the bodies were exhumed. issued to american troops, and then the bodies were either placed in a permanent cemetery or they were placed in coffins and brought to the ports for shipment back home. about 70% of american families elected to have their loved ones returned home at government expense. the other roughly 30% were left eventually for burial in permanent cemetery is now maintained by the american battle monuments commission. americans were led to keep permanent cemeteries in france. america would keep one for each big battle, basically, in france. mr. yockelson: it was a gruesome teams becausers by now, many of the bodies had decomposed and work difficult to identify because of the decomposition or the fact that some of the bodies were so badly damaged by shell or machine gun cases

president donald trump how did that breaux bads go down in france. while you could argue that the french are actually getting used or that have gotten used to his way of doing international politics actually his principle is i'm going to talk to everybody even though we won't agree but he's trying to be you know have a good relationship with all the leaders on an international level the french to peace shake down they think that he's actually a good international president even though he's not completely he's not that much supported in france that in france it's fifty fiftieth's the top of the population still think that he's doing a very good job and half of the population either against him or they don't really know what to think about him however they do most of the people here do think that he's a good international president especially as for once it's a president who speaks english but how has his strategy actually got him because the e.u. medals tariffs dispute is still going on. absolutely you know what it's like with these meetings you never

and germany and france need to take charge they need to lead europe. and there's never been a union within a larger region without head to monica partners and germany and france need to assume hegemonic status and step up as the leading powers in europe. until france has understood the opportunity it has together with germany europe won't make any progress. openly for. the opposite of this is happening it feels as though europe is winding down britain is exiting eastern european countries are saying sure what take the money but we don't want any responsibilities italians are saying there should be a parallel currency that allows them to get out. can the e.u. as we know it be salvaged so. no one understands what italy is on about let's wait and see. eastern europe is saying it wants to be heard. in this respect the us is playing an unfortunate role because it went out of its way to convince these countries to be terrified of russia and it played a not inconsiderable role in the ukraine problem. we need to talk very clearly about u.s. interests and europ