here is more from the paris mayor's although today. -- paris mayor today. >> i'm delighted to be here before you today. we have seen a lot of his passion and hope brought here. i would like to thank all of the elected representatives and mayors who are here, because they, too, want to bring the people together. paris is ready. we're going to build a great victory for these games. for the olympics, for paris, for our country, thank you. genie: ben bernier is also at that center in paris where the launch took place. how did it all go? ben: you had dozens of athletes right behind me at the french olympic center in paris. it is part of the strategy to put the athletes forward as opposed to politicians. there is a sense among the paris olympic authorities that during the last failed bid for the 2012 olympics, we saw too many politicians and not enough athletes. this was just about 30 minutes ago. many athletes were feeling excited and confident, and not arrogant. early trying not to appear overly arrogant. anne hidalgo, the mayor of paris, will be gathering students and young people by the

>> oh, yeah. >> we met paris on his 18th birthday. he had just transferred from the jail's juvenile detention center to the adult facility. and though it seemed he had little to celebrate, paris decided to make a birthday cake. >> it's going to be called layer cake. >> do you know about his baking skills? >> yeah. >> he only had the ingredients that one can get in commissary, and it's this potpourri of cakes, fudge, candies, the whole thing. >> see, i ain't never seen no cake this tall. it's a monster cake. >> how did you come up with the idea to do this, paris? >> being incarcerated. you learn a lot of new things when you're around different people. >> i filmed so many of these shows and usually they just take their ingredients, they throw it together, they mix it around, put in some spices, put in some different candies or whatever, and it's done. but in this case, he was so methodical about each item and how it lined up on the cake. and 45 minutes, an hour had elapsed and he was still adding ingredients precisely. >> you know you'v

, for paris, and for our country. reporter: joining paris are the cities of boston, rome, and hamburg. other cities could still announce bids. the paris sca has many advantages aimed at seducing the international olympic committee the main one being that 80% of the infrastructure required to host the games exists already but with a budget of just 6 billion euros paris is trailing behind the previous host, london who spent $11 billion, and beijing who invested over $30 billion. >> have everything needed and could put together a loki games that do not cost too much. there is a sport and passion among the french and parisians which will be key when it comes to convincing the committee. >> if harris wins the race, it will be the first time the city of lights has hosted the games in 100 years. laura: good luck to paris. may the best city win. markus karlsson is with us with the latest business news. markus: the board of a french conglomerate is rejecting a takeover for its telecom unit. this is the results of a board meeti

in paris, 7:00 a.m. in washington, d.c. the presidential race is heating up with more people joining the republican primaries. jeb bush is expected to announce today. more on this story live from the u.s. plus the aviation industry is flying high at the paris air show. stephen carroll will bring us the latest. >> it is the biggest day of the year for the aerospace industry. i will be live from the paris air show, reporting on the deals being done and what the big players have to say about the airline industry. >> all that and lots more still to come on live from paris. >> speculation is mounting as to the location of sudanese president omar al-bashir. a spokesman for the president had announced his intention to return to sudan in spite of an order from the high court not to leave south africa. germans of the military airbase say they have seen his plane leaving. although it is still not established whether or not al bashir was on the plane. the sudanese president is wanted by the icc for war crimes, and a court case is on t

hundreds of migrants are cleared out of a makeshift camp under the paris metro. also coming up this hour, a late-night meeting with some surprise guest but are greece's lenders close to a deal to stave off its looming debt crisis? fifa denies new allegation that set -- that sepp blatter's right-hand man made a controversial payment. our top stories. genie: first rescue teams in china are frantically trying to save some of the 458 people on board a ship that capsized monday night in the yanks the river -- in the yanks to river. the ship's captain and engineer have been rescued and are in custody. >> it was meant to be a relaxing cruise on the yanggzte river. the cruise line called the eastern star got caught in a storm and capsized. aboard 458 passengers, crew members, and tour operators. according to state media cctv, survivors trapped under the ship could be shouting -- could be heard shouting for help. relatives of the passengers are waiting for news outside the travel agency, which is closed. >> nobody is answering our phone calls. someone should come out and

this is far southeast of paris. we will be covering this, of course worldwide through the morning, just breaking, a terrorist attack southeast of paris this morning. we need to turn to brussels, where the news simply does not end. ring fence it's a term from the first crisis of 2007, and then i heard it again used with lehman brothers in early 2009, and now we are ring fencing greece. if key saturday meetings fail, europe may ring fence greece. well, time is pressing according to chancellor merkel. hans nichol social security ring fenced in brussels throughout the week. what will occur today, and how do you and the rest of brussels get to saturday evening? hans: how we get to saturday evening is easy, and that's caffeine and a lot of it. the summit ended last night at 3:00 a.m., and they weren't even talking greece. they stopped talking greece in the middle of the evening because there simply wasn't any progress. what has to happen today is they have to merge these two documents. they have to take the greece documen

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this year's paris air show kicks off today. airbus is not unveiling new products. [indiscernible] we are seeing live pictures out of the paris air show. we have seen some great shots throughout the day as a lot of these airplanes are flying around. ar-350. alibaba is planning to build china's version of netflix. it will be offered in about two months through alibaba's set-top box. and as a newly directed part has become the second film in history to pull in more than $200 million -- and the new jurassic park movie has become the second film in history to pull in more than $20 million. "the avengers" made or more. -- pull in more than $200 million. at 10:15 a.m., the ceo of the saudi stock exchange as it opens to foreign investors were the first time. at 10:35 a.m., we will speak to the ceo of aercap. at 1:15 an exclusive interview with the ukrainian president petro poroshenko. stay tuned for that. this friday, charlie rose in conversation with the russian president, vladimir putin fsa pittsburgh economic -- at the st. petersbur

embassy in the middle of paris. essentially, to do this job effectively, you need to be there almost with that vast sweeping ability to get in on all of your possible suspects. what this new law will do, and francois hollande went to great lengths to assure people he would cross all of the constitutional t's, that this would be done in the full realm of legality without violating liberties and freedoms and civil rights of french citizens. before they can go through this intelligence, before they can operate, with these new powers, they will need to get a go-ahead from a clearinghouse panel composed of judges politicians from different parties, who will say, yes week, grant you the right to do so. they need that seal of approval so that it is fully legal and not perceived as, or downright does not finally people's civil liberties, it is a fine line. people against these say it is impossible to carry out this type of intelligence effectively without in some way by letting what some people would consider their freedom

i think wilson was right to go to paris. there are many views of wilson in paris. was wilson the messiah who came from the united states with the gift of peace and international fellowship and was greeted by lighthearted, cynical people in europe who took his gift and destroyed it? that was promulgated, that wilson was too good for the europeans. the europeans did not understand what it was that he was offering. my own view is that is wrong. many europeans supported what wilson was trying to do. they had seen firsthand, and many of them had survived what the war had done to their society. for a lot of europeans, wilson offered thomas, offered hope. many of the ideas he was bringing with him were ideas that had been in europe for a long time. these were not just ideas he had come up with. these were ideas that you should have collective security, ideas that had been talked about throughout the 19th century in europe. ideas of international arbitrations to settle disputes among nations. these were things that had been talked about and had been tried. international fr

the paris air show is more than just a race. it's also about a chance to look at where the aviation industry is heading in terms of innovation. here's something to think about next time you fly. there's a good chance that several parts of the plane came from a printer. >> 3-d printing is being used more and more industries, not least in the aerospace sector. airbus says more than 1000 parts of its jets have been used -- made using a 3-d printer. take for example parts of the aircraft while, but also some of the housing for cabling and even when it comes to aircraft. markus: and it's not just inside the plane that the technology is being used. 3-d printer manufacturer stratus's can also calibrate its machines to make parts of the wing. >> instead of building from a block of material, you can build the inside with a structure which will make it much lighter, so the benefits for the manufacturer will be the low consumption of fuel, the cost per part being on the plane is going to help them reach their target. stephen: as well as us

iraq's prime minister warns if he meets with international allies in paris. south sudan expelled the most senior official in the country accusing him of exaggeration. myanmar escorting a boat of migrants to an undisclosed safe location. the new cancer treatment scientists are saying is a once in a generation discovery. ♪ iraq's prime minister is describing the advance of i.s.i.l. fighters as a failure of the community and accusing the u.s. led coalition not doing enough to stop them and ministers of 24 countries are in paris to find tune strategy against i.s.i.l. but the meeting is being marred by mutual suspicion and blame for what has been going wrong. crossing over to mohamed joining us from outside that venue where the meeting is taking place in paris and ahead of the meeting mohamed saying the country and his government needs more support to fight i.s.i.l. what kind of support is he talking about here and how likely is it to get the support? >> yeah it's interesting these comments from abd rabbuh mansur hadi because we knew leading up to this meeting t

they asked if one could come safely to paris. is the paris-jewish community protected? i wanted to explain real life in paris. yes, there were attacks. there is a terrorist threat. this thread is everywhere. not only in paris. it hit other cities. i am thinking of copenhagen or tunis. paris is a safe city for visitors and the jewish community is protected. the french president chose to use significant means for this protection sense the army came to paris to protect a certain number of places. i was afraid of the image this military presence would give of a city that should live without it. then again, parisians were creative because they accepted this presence, but they also supported it. it allowed everyone to go back faster to normal life. to have a normal city, a normal economic activity again. today, activity is in full swing. we are getting ready to host a conference on climate change at the end of the year. many heads of state, business leaders, and mayors will be present. this shows the dynamics of our city. activity is fully back to normal. francine: that is th

foreign ministers from 24 countries are in paris and they are there to find tune their strategy against i.s.i.l. but the meeting is being marred by mutual suspicion and blame for what has been going wrong. crossing over to mohamed who is joining us from just outside the venue of that meeting in paris and at least he was speaking before that meeting started, the meeting took place, have we heard from other participants mohamed? >> not as of yet. we are expecting there will be a press conference probably in about one hour from now maybe a little bit less. hopefully at that point we will be hearing a bit more about what exactly was discussed and what possible solutions were put forward in this meeting today. as you mentioned, right now there is a real blame game that is going on when it comes to the iraqi government and their fighting i.s.i.l. and u.s. led coalition, today we heard from prime minister abd rabbuh mansur hadi and got to paris and said they are not sharing intelligence with air strikes against i.s.i.l. and says also iraqi troops that analysts say are in tatters they need more

about to meet their international allies in paris. >>> south sudan expels the head of the u.n. human tear i didn't know mission. no explanation is given. >>> and the new cancer treatment scientists are saying is a once in a generation discovery. ♪ ♪ >>> hello, a cruise ship with 458 people on board has capsized in china. at least five people confirmed dead. but rescuers have heard some people crying for help from inside the ship. most passengers are elderly tourists. chinese state media says the captain and chief engineer managed to get out and have been questioned -- detained, rather for questioning. the eastern star sank in the yangtze river in china. and that is in the country's south. crossing over to rob mcbride who is joining us live from hong kong to give us an update on the situation there. what we know about this particular vessel, rob. >> reporter: that's right. this does raise various safety concerns about cruise ships and about the yangtze river. there has been earlier this year in january another tragedy a tug was undergoing trials when it capsized and 22 lives

-led coalition carrying out air strikes against isil are due do meet paris in paris on tuesday. we look at what we can picture from the talks. >> reporter: with their fighter jets still taking off france's commitment to combating isil continues. part of the u.s.-led coalition battling the group, they are among the countries whose air raids have promise today pulverize a dangerous enemy in to retreat. but on the ground in iraq, the situation is dire. critics say it's extremely misguided and the meeting in paris will make little different. >> this comes after days, there is a dream that there is still an iraqi army. there is no iraqi army. it has been dispannedded by paul grammar back in 2003. >> reporter: if anyone understands how much of a threat isil constitutes it's this journalist. he was taken hostage by the group in syria for almost a year year. >> so basically we are supporting an army that is not reliable and we are giving them weapons that they will eventually hand over to isil. this is totally stupid. >> reporter: the issues at play are far more than just tactical and l

police have broken up unlawfully chemnitz in paris and have sent -- unlawful encampments in paris and have sent back migrants. >> a few minutes away from the tourist heart of paris, a short walk, that is all that links the world that we know to a world of desperation in this europe's summer of the migrant. this is new the euro store train. 150 people are camped here. he is 15 and traveled for two years from eritrea to reach here. he is among an estimated 5000 migrants who reached europe since the start of the year. we asked him why did he leave? i left he said, because all of my friends had left. where's your family? he had no identity papers. to get help, they have to undergo loan x-rays to prove that they are children. with the migrant influx across the mediterranean, paris is wary. the gates of this park was locked against the newcomers. a few eritreans campout. do you know where the baby will be born? in the park? >> yes. >> what did you think europe would be like? she told me she thought europe would be the solution. in older neighborhoods, and they are welcoming migrants. food c

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the iraqi officer will be at a meeting in paris to discuss how to deal with i.s.i.l. haider al-abadi said the international community must do more to stop terrorists entering the country. >> the flow of terrorists coming to iraq never stopped and the number went down for a fraction. it's a dangerous phenomenon because it shows the efforts by the international community to stop terrorists failed and until now, i.s.i.l. is still able to sell oil and use revenues to finance criminal enterprises and terrorist operations. >> lawrence koch is a former u.s. assistant of defense, and says it looks like i.s.i.l. is changing its strategy. >> i think what happened is we overestimated the ability of the iraqi forces with new leadership to fight. turned out it wasn't just bad leaders that maliki put in there, it was the will of the sunnis, and we thought when maliki left, and a body came in the sunnis would feel like part of iraq. that has not happened. he has not governed in an inclusive manner. the other thing is i.s.i.s. or i.s.i.l. is adapting strategies. as shown here they ar

two rounds of ministerial meetings in paris, one in july and one in september. nationsveral key issues, including whether to set immediate goal emission reductions. a solar aircraft is attempting to fly around the world powered only by the spun -- by the sun has made an unscheduled stop. it was to be the longest leg of the journey, a six day, 5000 mile flight to hawaii. it is the seventh of 12 flights and the riskiest. >> to embark on a record-breaking journey across the pacific until poor weather caused them to press pause. the solar team was faced with a start choice, continue across the expanse of the pacific and risk running out of power, or make an unscheduled stop in japan and waiting to the bad weather forecast has passed. >> we are not daredevils. we are lawyers. the only safe decision is to stop in nagoya and wait a few days before carrying on. >> the seventh leg of the 12 the journey that put it on hold is thousands of kilometers away but they need the perfect weather window for the six days and six nights flight. once across the pacific there is no tu

the second day of the paris air show in paris. guy johnson is there with a guest for the very latest. guy? guy: thank you. the big debate at the paris air show is are lower fuel prices starting to hit to demand? let's touch a man who may know it. good morning. -- let us talk to a man who may know about it. you have the e1 which is the current generation engine fuel etc. and a new aircraft which is the e2 which is more fuel-efficient and going to save the airline a bit of money. fuel prices are down. guest: we have pause. we are waiting to see where this thing will go. i do not believe in the long-term there will be change and the trends we order the new airplanes. guy: would you have expected to be selling more e2's? frederico curado: we are very satisfied with our results. we announce another 25 aircraft. it is good. two or three years away from certification. guy: it is that airlines you really want to see, isn't it? frederico curado: both are important. so, i will say they are both important. guy: u.s. airlines are making a lot

paris? paris? >> rochelle there have not been announcements made yet and not expecting there to be any press conferences until about three hours from now and not sure which attendees will be at that press conference. what has been interesting here at a time where there has been so much e criticism of effort by coalition of i.s.i.l. because it has been advancing so much after the fall of ramadi in iraq what you are hearing here is not that much. in fact, the fanfare around this meeting the past several days has quieted down and we know there are 24 attendees and foreign ministers including delegations from the u.s. and qatar and uk we are not getting a sense of what is going on inside. we heard some frustration expressed earlier in the day and remarks from prime minister abadi who told the press core this morning this was a failure on the part of the international community that i.s.i.l. has been able to advance and fight as much as it has the past few months and he is urging the internationa

when he was in paris he went with his life, hadley. they met in chicago, both working for newspapers of the time. he married her. she had a trust fund income of several hundred dollars a month in the 1920's. that afforded him to be able to live and basically do nothing but write and socialize. people highly criticized him for those years. all you are doing is writing and socializing, you don't really work. who he socialized with, picasso, fitzgerald, gertrude stein, they became known as the lost generation. yet the instinct of knowing who to hang with. he is there in paris and hadley and friends, a fashion editor for "vote" magazine -- "vogue." he divorced hadley after having his son john and he married pauline pfeiffer at the catholic church in paris. in the celtic key west via an ocean liner and they come aboard in march of 1928. here he fell 11 fishing. he fell in love with the clarity of his writing, how fast he was producing the work. he knocked out the first rough draft of "a farewell to arms" in two weeks after arriving in key w

at the paris air show phil lebeau "nightly business report," paris, france. >> we begin tonight's market folk us with a late announcement from gap. they're closing 175 of the namesake stores and cutting 250 jobs at its headquarters as it tries to strengthen the struggling brand. the company which is also the parent of names like old navy and banana republic says it expects annual sales losses of about $300 million because of those closures. shares were higher initially after the bell. before the close, the stock was to $38.20. some competition for netflix. there are plans to launch a rival paid to watch video subscription service in china within a couple of months. netflix fell to 1%. >>> the owner of kelly blue book and auto trader they're going to buy dealer track in a deal valued at $4 billion. the combination is expected to allow the firm's to provide a wide range of software for the auto industry and the market loved it. the shares soared up 58% to $62.98. and promising news for blue bird's sickle sell drug. the experiment treatment gotten couraging results in a one patient study in

in paris urks and european -- paris, u.s. and european officials met to plan for the attack against i.s.i.l. 20 countries were represented, but no new strategies emerged. the summit got off to a rocky start with iraqis criticizing the coalition for not doing enough to help defeat i.s.i.l. >> reporter: in iraq the bullets and bombs continue. fighting so severe it looks nowhere near over. the hot desert landscape, a tangled web of militaries and militias all trying to stop the advance of i.s.i.l. in paris a start juxtaposition. in this ornate setting diplomats desperate to find a solution for iraq in its battle against i.s.i.l., or as the group is called in arabic d.a.e.s.h. >> translation: the international community, the international coalition has to support us has to support us to destroy d.a.e.s.h. >> translation: the exchanges that we had today allowed us to reaffirm our unity and common determination to combat d.a.e.s.h. terrorists. >> the happened shakes and hopefulness meant to show how resolute the coalition remains.

still to come on the program, we are in paris at the 51st airshow. we will be speaking live to guy johnson in just a few minutes time. ♪ anna: welcome back everybody. here are the stories you need to know this morning. greece enters what could be a defining week after last-ditch negotiations between the government and creditors collapsed on sunday. the european commission said the breast -- that the talks in brussels have broken up after 45 minutes. boeing and airbus are reported to be close to winning at least 220 orders competing at the paris air show. the orders would be worth at least $23 million. the orders are scheduled to begin today when the events formerly open. saudi arabia is upping up its stock markets to foreign investors -- opening up its stock market to foreign investors for the first time today. the index is up 16% in 2015. stocks advanced the most in two months yesterday ahead of 9:00 london time. that is when they will open this morning. let's talk about technology. today is the start of london technology week. some impressive spe

manus: we will speak to these former ecb president from paris. stay with us right here on "the pulse." ♪ manus: welcome back to "the pulse." francine: as europe's holds its breath to see whether greek -- greece will make it payment at the end of the month, of greater concern is the bond held by the european central bank which matures on july 20. what are the ecb crisis rolls -- rules? we are joined by jean claude pingat. thank you so much for joining us. i know no one wants to see greece go, but as positions are hardening, do think there is a chance for a deal in the next seven days? >> first of all i would say it is very complicated. there are problems. the political problem with greece which everyone knows the problems with the creditor friendly countries in europe which is also big because you have to go to parliament, you also have to commit parliament and taxpayers it is a good plan. you also have the problem of the global level because you have to get the imf on board. i hope profoundly that they will make it because of course it is by fa

a big event every year here in paris. it is the paris air show. all the big air companies try to sell some airplanes. how has it been going? >> the biggest plane manufacturers, airbus and boeing, wasted no time going head-to-head at the end of the first day. airbus took home orders for 140 claims, while boeing was at around 80. an indian group bag a multimillion dollar contract. they will supply metallic parts. the deal will serve as a boost for the indian prime minister's campaign. i am glad the process was wrong. when you look back at it -- the process was long. it serves evidence the process was rigorous and will lead to greater competence from the manufacturer. therefore, i think larger orders in a shorter time. the moment you can demonstrate that you have companies in india that can manufacture to the rigorous requirements of companies such as airbus, you are already validating your contention that making in india for the world is a very viable aspiration to have. delano: talks between greece and its creditors broke down once again this weeke

with the 51st paris air show kicking off in paris we will be speaking to pratt & whitney. the first lumber -- bloomberg interview. we will have plenty of more coverage coming from the paris air show. and the air asia show -- ceo tony fernandes. they await any news surrounding the great crisis. zeb: great to see you and good morning. it is happening across the region. and a noted some of the macro issues. greece factoring into the equation and investors in emerging markets looking toward the federal reserve is that today meeting gets underway. let's take a look at how the markets are panning out today. it is a down day for the msci index. you're seeing profit-taking, a solace -- selloff in the market. the shanghai composite is off its earlier lows that it is down 1.25. the focus is on two things three things. the underlying economic story in china. the level of margin debt that has been accumulative i chinese and domestic investors. $350 billion, a staggering amount that is a record and has the regulator taking a second look to make sure credit is not happen. and valuations

the message from iraq's prime minister to international allies as they got together in paris to discuss how in their opinion they could defeat isil. he said his country needs the support of the world, but simply isn't getting it and specifically he says he wants his allies to provide more intelligence. the situation in iraq and over its borders are becoming increasingly urgent. isil most recently conquered ramadi and the historic syrian city of palmyra. isil's territories stretching across vast areas of the countryside. it's controlled isil that is the city of mosul for more than a year and stretches down into anbar province. taking ramadi in may a strategic city as it connects baghdad to the syrian and jordanian borders. >> translator: we need to disrupt the flow of international combatants and dry up their finance sources. we need to fight all of this. >> let's go to our correspondent following the day's developments in paris for us. when he says abahdy that he wants more intelligence from those people that are taking the fight to isil with him, what kind of intelligence does he mean.

that attitude is building up around the world in paris and beyond. peter: thank you for sharing those insights with us today. that was the executive director of the united nations environment program. sarah: in germany, and author of iranian heritage has won one of the countries most prestigious writing awards. brian: judges say they picked him for his contribution to promoting understanding between people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds. reporter: he has made a name for himself as one of germany's most reductive and influential authors. the 47-year-old practicing muslim holds a doctorate in islamic studies and has traveled to many middle east war zones. his writing focuses on religion, cross-cultural encounters, and the challenges of modern society. some of his most widely discussed essays have dealt with how muslims view christianity. last year, as part of the ceremony to celebrate germany's constitution kermani urged germany to take in more refugees in his speech. he's a vocal advocate of greater dialogue tween different religious co

>> hello and welcome to paris. it is not :00 p.m. in the french capital. the man once viewed as a possible candidate for the french presidency, dominique strauss-kahn, is acquitted in involvement in a prostitution ring. a second round of flogging for the saudi arabian blogger has been postponed again. also as well, the israeli investigation says the missile test that killed four young boys last year with a tragic accident, saying they mistook them for gunmen. >> welcome back. our top story in france, dominique strauss-kahn has been acquitted of being involved in a prostitution ring. the court's decision friday ends a legal battle that captivated this country. the case also something wants possible presidential candidate fighting to prove it was not a criminal act. >> cleared of all charges, dominique strauss-kahn admitted the a swinger enjoying rough sex, but he has always denied being involved in a prostitution ring. he risked up to 10 years in prison. now, he is a free man. a judge acquitted him. his lawyer welcomes the ruling. >> the formal investigatio

tmz reports paris hilton is going to sue. while promoting a hotel in dubai, paris took a ride on a sight-seeing plane at the invitation of this egyptian tv host and prankster. >> what's happening? >> what's happening is a stunt pilot cuts the engine. the plane dives, paris surrounded by actors apparently thinks they're going down. she later tweeted, scariest moment of my life. they even opened the back door and threw someone out. though he was wearing a parachute, they braced for a crash. then landed. to her credit paris asked about the man who was thrown out. >> is that guy okay? >> yes, yes. >> the host then comes clean about the prank. this video has succeeded at something rarely achieved. it has made people sympathetic to paris hilton. people like nancy grace. >> if i were paris hilton i would take these people to the cleaners. >> and it's horrifying and she could suffer severe mental illness because of it. >> there are doubters. >> i think that she could have been part of this. look how she is constantly moving her hair.

lee reports now from paris. >> the streets of paris are significantly quieter the metro noticeably busier because of this, a major strike by the city official taxi driver whose have come out in force politicking what is normally a very busy intersection, in the heart of the city, they are angry with preorder prepay taxi companies line uber they feel are taking their jobs and not paying their taxis what we have seen here, are running battles between the police, and taxi drivers certain cars that are been parked around here bore the punt of their anger. there have been suspicious these vehicles have been preorder taxis and many have. upturned and some of they have smashed. uber ha no business here, in france we have regulations right up to here. police are here on stand by, there are some concerns. what we are seeing when french ferry workers held a strike there, they were deeply worried about job cuts. >> you won't see it if you look down some of the areas here, which is usually beautiful lush green everything is turned, and very sandy dull color. >> it is incredible my scary when you see

finally now paris is breaking up with its love locks. for years couples have attached locks to the pont des arts. jacky rowland reports from paris. >> it is early morning in the city of love and a bit of romantic history is about to come to an end. they're closing off the pont des arts a popular destination to attach a padlock. time to go. >> i find it a little ironic. we're here on our engagement for our locks of love. maybe that's not an owe men on our future relationship. >> i came here 42 years of marriage to put a lock on for my wife and i can't do it. >> that's rubbish of course. >> the whole saga of the pad locks has put the city in a tricky position. obviously it doesn't want to do anything to upset the tourists but it has responsibility to the people who live and work in the city. in the end it came down to public safety. the risk that part of the the.walkway could fall down on the a pedestrian or a passing boat. >> the issue we have with the love locks not the bridge itself. >> one tourist at least thinks he can find a solution

thousands of taxi drivers went on strike if paris thursday. stopping traffic with burning tires and blocking roadways with their cars. they say uber is unfairly and illegally stealing their business. >> a lot of chaos on the streets of paris. jim bittermann is there live with more. jim, good day to you. taxi drivers are complaining that ub are is stealing their business and the government seems to sympathize with them. >>. >> reporter: in fact george there is a complaint settled against uber pop basically

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foreign ministers head to paris to discuss gains in iraq and syria. i'm felicity barr and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up evidence of russia's military presence on the boarder with ukraine. moscow denies it's there to help the separatists.

why paris? the paris lab well tap into these strong city ai lab research immunity. also, teed up employees were formerly based in paris. now two hewlett-packard's big moonshot -- the machine. it is a new kind of supercomputer built to handle the growing demands of big data. how bold is h pre-'s demand -- is hp's demand for this machine? their ceo joins us from las vegas where he is currently at the this cover conference. martin, thank you for joining us. there is so much fascination around this machine. i know it is a work in progress. i'm sure you can tell us, if you succeed, what is possible? it's basically a data center that can fit in the size of a refrigerator and is completely low-power? martin: thanks for having me. you made a comment when you started that it was a supercomputer and really the machine is an architecture that thinks about the supercomputer all the way down to phones, so it covers the gamut. i will get to what this means when we separate. let me give you an example of the kinds of things the machine will be able to do that will resonate with a

the investigation was under the paris prosecution of the paris judiciary under section of anti- -- the coordinating and -- and internal security forces numerous investigations are currently in progress and i'm restricted in the time available to preserve the investigation, but also taking into account the numerous, unanswered questions that need to be clarified, and i was going to say it's almost [ inaudible ] because the actual assessments started not at the beginning, but rather after 3:00 4:00. i remind you that my two colleague prosecutors arrived at 3:30 on-site the investigation has only started and it will have to answer a number of questions. first of all, with how the events took place, the -- the journey, the road taken, what happened inside the factory, and also the specific event of the decapitation, we need to determine the circumstances and whether the decapitation was postmortem or antimoretem. at this stage no element allows us to assert that he was accompanied by an accomplice who -- who -- there were witnesses, one particular person in the vehicle. and now i can tell

>>> paris removes the love locks weighing down a 19th century bridge. >> okay, starting in iraq where government forces have suffered major losses as they try to drive the islamic the islamic state in iraq and the levant. there were explosived rigged into a tank in front of a base. the base is supposed to be a secure position just before that, 42 policemen died in a suicide attack north of fallujah and on sunday, 33 iraqi government fighters died in an ambush east of the provincialal capital ramadi, which isil had seized two weeks ago. government said its operation in anbar would be a quick current offensive. just a few days in and iraqi forces appear to be struggling. we have more on a tank near tikrit. >> this was perhaps one of the boldest brazen attacks that isil has mounted against iraqi security forces. the base is home to iraqi shia militia and iraqi forces. isil is alleged to have driven a tank to the gates of that base where it exploded hence the amount of casualtyies that we're seeing. now we've seen throughout the last few days isil forces use humvees, suicide car bombs to

. >> president nixon will dispatch his adviser on foreign affairs, henry kissinger to paris for peace talks. >> nixon's strategy on vietnam was to negotiate a peace agreement but at the same time to -- >> we had to turn the conflict over to south vietnam or it would be helpless. >> the south vietnamese were taught to think like americans, act like americans, fight like americans. >> south vietnam's president thieu, he wanted nothing more than to gradually take over full responsibility for the war. >> president nixon started with joint troops almost right away. he had a lot to withdraw. over 5,000 men there. >> but he di this very slowly. as they supposedly shifted the burd in of ten of the fighting south vietnamese. so slowly a lot of people were getting killed in the process. >> october 15, 1969, vietnam moratorium day. >> surely this is a day unique in our history. never have so many of our people, publicly, and collectively manifested opposition to this country's involvement in a war. >> it wasn't hippies. it wasn't radicals and markists. it was ordinary middle-class americans. 2 m

when we have the information results that the public prosecutor from paris will comment. i cannot give specific information on this point for the simple reason that there is still an investigation in progress. why was this plant targeted in particular? you will have information in due course course. if there is further information, naturally the paris prosecutor myself will communicate this information, but as always with serious events i don't want to give information that is not absolutely accurate and the investigation has just started. it is conducted in respect of the norm. the information that i give an investigation is in progress and as always when such a serious event takes place we will communicate the information to get with the antiterrorist prosecution as when the information comes in and it is confirmed. thank you very much. >> that was the french interior minister bernard speaking at the scene of the chemical factory attack in france. he was saying that the suspects in the attack is in custody. he doesn't have a criminal record but registered as possibly ra

foreign ministers head to paris to discuss gains in iraq and syria. i'm felicity barr and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up evidence of russia's military presence on the boarder with ukraine. moscow denies it's there to help the separatists. >>> india bakes in a heatwave, the country under pressure to do more to help the most vulnerable. >>> and an airline that lost two of its planes and 500 lives, tells 6,000 of its workers that they are no longer needed >>> hello of the the islamic state of iraq and levant has been dealt a heavy blow to the offensive in anbar. dozens of troops and police have been killed using captured military vehicles. in one attack fighters drove a tank laden with explosives south-west into tikrit killing 45 people. funerals have been held for police and shia militia men, killed when three i.s.i.l. suicide bombers drove humvees into a police base. the attacks happened on the eve of a conference in paris, where members of the anti-i.s.i.l. coalition will review strategies following setbacks. >> first imran khan h

." >> we start this hour in paris. the french president is condemning violent protests by taxi drivers over the on-line ride service, uber. >> yes. we will wait and see what this day brings. thousands of taxi drivers went on strike if paris thursday. stopping traffic with burning tires and blocking roadways with their cars. they say uber is unfairly and illegally stealing their business. >> a lot of chaos on the streets of paris. jim bittermann is there live with more. jim, good day to you. taxi drivers are complaining that ub are is stealing their business and the government seems to sympathize with them. >>. >> reporter: in fact george there is a complaint settled against uber pop basically banning uber pop from operating on the streets of paris. the company has appealed that ruling and the appeal is yet to be heard. they are continuing to say that chauffeurs should drive. what happened this morning is that the interior minister said that anybody who urges the chauffeurs and drivers of these uber pop vehicles to driv

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