france has committed itself in all international negotiations and december, 2015, france managed to get 195 countries to sign an agreement, a commitment, the paris agreement for the climate. yes, i say it very strongly. we will not renegotiate a less ambitious agreement in no case. france, this evening, calls on all the countries that have signed the agreement to remain within the framework of the paris agreement, to live up to responsibilities that we have, and to give up nothing. this evening i would like to say to the united states of america that france believes in you, the world believes in you, i know that you are a very great nation, that the united states were founded to foster liberty, freedom, reason, against ignorance. don't get this wrong. on climate, there is no plan b. because there is no climate b. we will continue. to all the scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, committed citizens that the decision of the united states president has disappointed, i would like to say this. you will find in france a second homeland. i issue an appeal to all of you, come and work here with

france equalised shortly afterwards, a great save but france went level. they went ahead just before the break. another good save from heaton but france ahead at the break. then controversy. was this a penalty, dele alli brought down. it went to a video assistant to decided it wasn't just a penalty but also a red card to france. harry kane equalised from the spot. we then saw a mexican wave between the two leaders but theresa may won't be smiling at the end because france came away with the victory. dembele with the winner just 13 came away with the victory. dembele with the winnerjust 13 minutes from the end. some good points for england but ultimately a frustrating night for them. they play malta and slovakia at the beginning of september in world cup qualifiers. harry kane has captained them for the last couple of matches, hasn't he? that's right. he said scoring twice in france should be enough, we've got to find a way to win, we weren't good enough, we want to be brave and play from the back. it's disappointing. we were in the drivers seat but we didn

"france 24" reports. this, violence looks like a string of red text, demanding bitcoin to gain access to the computers' files. the ransom where spread like wildfire. >> the computer became uncontrollable, a chain reaction started, the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth computer, and it spread. >> the ukraine's central bank and even chernobyl's nuclear watch have been attacked, some saying that russia is destabilizing the country. to prevent working dissemination of the harmful software and elimination of its consul winces. is doingnding out who this and its motives can be tricky as viruses like this one have become increasingly sophisticated. >> the signatures of text are changing too quickly for conventional antivirus to keep up. >> already, the virus has spread across the globe. bonds,rail, deutsche and a u.s. from company are just some to be hit. loophole, one formerly used by a national security agency, but this one does not seem to have a kill switch, which makes it all the more dangerous. the 1989

. >> them to france in focus. -- welcome to france in focus. in 1977 the demonstrations turned violent. 2000 protesterss -- 60,000 protesters came up against thousands of officers. one person died. nuclear energy prevailed. chernobyl catastrophe frightened france. >> it will be the same here if everything goes wrong. >> in 2011 another does a. the nuclear plant in japan was hit i assume not me. the vulnerability of nuclear power was brought to the foreground. and seismicoding activity. many local or still wrote nuclear. -- many locals were still pro-nuclear. 'sday around 75% of france power comes from nuclear energy. this nuclear plant has a full reactor. are currently operational. around one third of the nuclear reactors in france will have the 40 year mark by 2022. should they all be dismantled or renovated and allowed to continue operating? knownrance was best nuclear power plant. it's also the oldest. 1978 andmmissioned in along with dozens of other french nuclear plants it's starting to age. 34 of france's 58 reactors are more than 30 year

prices in france because of -- crisis in france because of a shortage of butter. farmers are under pressure to increase production. >> pastry lovers beware. these may soon become expensive treats in france because the price of butter has been skyrocketing to alarming levels. according to the baker association, the wholesale price of butter has more than doubled in less than a year to a whopping 5300 euros this month. increasedinly due to global demand, mainly in asia. the health benefits of the dairy product have been better recognized in recent years. a shortage has made it more expensive even though the price of milk is steadily gone down. pastry makers in france are seeing a major crisis crying, warning -- growing. warning nounion is producers to prioritize butter over other milk products. >> i can hope they will still be there for some time. host: i hope so. who knew? thanks for watching. it is now time for the press review. ♪ >> we will take a look at what the papers are saying today. >> a lot of focus on the results of the first round of the french parliam

in france, that is not the case. macron is legitimate in the votes but half of the population who have given up on turning out to vote -- that shows that he is in thepopular as we see national assembly. >> some skeptics are already saying that the single party hegemony could be a risk for democracy. is that just sour grapes? or is there something to that? >> i do not think there is any risk for french democracy. you will have a clear result of the election. this is the nature of democracy. if one party has the majority, that is the nature of the outcome of the election. why should democracy be in danger if you have a strong leader with a parliamentary majority? i cannot see that. >> emmanuelle chaze, i detect a skeptical look? >> definitely. if you look at the polls, what is indicated is that we will have an assembly which is definitely leaning right. his party is supposed to be a centrist party but it is a right-wing party. during thecored 22% first round. that means we are going to have a chunk of the national asse

the law allowing abortion in france. momenta.istorical each of us can remember when she in front of the e.ench assembly national there were hundreds of men and only nine women. her speech focused at the beginning on this point. i am sorry, she said, that i have to speak of something that is so personal, speaking to a lot of men in front of me. moment.n extraordinary lib and wehe women's had a lot of battles in the street to ask for this law. her support was essential because the right wing was against this law. anchor: the president says he wants her example to inspire citizens. even though times have changed, she still serves as a role model even today. >> yes, because she was so clear in the way she was supporting women's rights. in another situation, she was also very important. sometimes this is forgotten. it is about battered wives. she was the first minister that supported the first shelter in france for battered wives. when she was president of the european commission of created theshe commission for women's right

and they won't go under the will of germany and france. and as they did before. so if you look at the past, germany and france, stood for different groups of countries. france for the southern understanding of europe and how to go on. and germany for the northern. now you have eastern understanding. you have a completely different british understanding of things. so bringing all this together means to find something how to -- you have to develop a common understanding which must be on a lower basis than what we had before between germany and france. so that is the difference. and it is not enough to have macron in paris and probably macron in berlin. melinda: tony patterson, european leaders are meeting at this very moment as we speak. and later on, they are going to be hearing teresa may talk about her strategy for brexit. if we look back one year at the time of the brexit referendum, many people thought it was the death knell of the european union. things do look rather different today. in fact, in his invitation letter for this, e.u. council president donald t

he is reporting from northern france. the second round of the parliamentary election is now set for next sunday. let's take a look at what to expect in the coming days as candidates raced toward that vote or it we have more on what will be different this time around. mark bythe first round one of the largest abstention candidates ands, their supporters about it. >> thank you, let's get to work i'm going to go door-to-door to convince people. we need to tell people we need to fight this apathy. sunday's first round was a done deal and a few races this time. french voting rules let candidates win after the first round if they win over 50% of the vote. that only happened in four races on sunday. that is compared to 36 in the last election. another shift in voting patterns was in three-way races. candidates who received 12.5% go on to the second round. in most races, that means two finalists. in 2012, there were 30 43 ways. this year, there was only one. 's party has redefined political lines. --they are against the rent righ

what's more, frances knew about bill's affairs but always forgave him. >> bill loved frances so much that it was unbelievable, but when you cheated in the past and she stuck with you, right, it kind of makes it seem like it's okay, right? >> reporter: and frances might have forgiven bill yet again but this time, bill's mistress, bonnie contreras, wasn't letting go. during their three-year affair, bill had paid her rent and even bought her two cars, a bmw and a mercedes. >> bonnie contreras would take compromising photos, kind of just gather all these nuggets, that if things ever went south, she had all the proof she needed to kind of force you to do what she wanted. >> my mother was on the verge of a nervous breakdown because bonnie was taunting her constantly. >> she's texting and calling frances. bonnie would call her every explicit name in the book. >> reporter: it was a toxic love triangle destined to explode and it did. frances hall was stopped at a light on this road outside of san antonio when she saw her husband, bill, atop his harley davidson, followed closely by bonnie driv

this is a fourth tour de france, potentially a fourth tour de france, potentially a fourth tour de france, potentially a fourth tour de france title that i am trying to get. and that is, i mean, it is massive. the challenge is even bigger this year. ifeel massive. the challenge is even bigger this year. i feel as massive. the challenge is even bigger this year. ifeel as if massive. the challenge is even bigger this year. i feel as if the level of my rivals is even higher this year, on a difficult course, as well. so i am here with... yes, with all the motivation i have had before, if not even more. chris has obviously won three tours, there is i'io obviously won three tours, there is no reason he cannot win a fourth. he isa no reason he cannot win a fourth. he is a big favourite here. you know, i think he is going to be a lot better form than he was in the lead up, i think he knows how to take the pressure, obviously, but so does alberto, so does nairo and a few other guys. the elite of women's golf is at olympia fields, in chicago, for the second major of the year, the pga championship.

she played a crucial role in shaping modern france. montvale was -- she was one of the best -- >> he had special words for the he admired. >> she was france. it is a whole chapter of my life that has ended and i will never forget her. the president under whom they fought remembers her unwavering strength. >> she possessed an admirable courage. i hope that she will serve as an example for the example -- as an example for the french youth today. she faced vicious oppositions in the struggle that defined her mers --t today i admiration isn't unanimous. we are joined on the phone by a french historian and an author of several books on the holocaust. thank you for joining us. , thato mention, jean marc gave, she said the images, the odors, the humiliation of auschwitz -- you are an expert historian on this meadow of history, this forged much of her character and political beliefs, didn't it? >> yes. activists and she had a presence. she was happy. she wanted the holocaust to be remembered and she was really permitted to -- physically, you k

france in the world. why did macron win? think first, we are facing the same problems of some against our systems political system. we had populist from the left and from the right. macrons different was was a populist also but running on a centrist platform. he was a populist because he had never run for office. in france, to run for elected office, you had -- you would need to of been one for 30 years. he's very young for french politics, so he has appeal in a sense as also against the system. charlie: people look at this as two things, against the populism of le pen and the populism of brexit and the populism of donald trump here in france and in the netherlands, you saw a victory against that kind of populism. and a vote also for europe. >> exactly. there's a difference between the u.k. and france about europe. opposed the creation of the european union and eventually joined the community because if they could not beat it, they wanted to join it, but it has always been a transactional decision. maybe

this woman died of influenza in france. influenza was the single biggest killer in world war i, the pandemic killed millions of people at the time. she got sick and was buried on the day of the armistice. she made it almost to the end. grace banker, with her distinguished service medal -- i told you you had to see the picture, wasn't she gorgeous? woodrow wilson, it did not turn out as well as for grace banker. this shows my scam patient young women after the war. by the way the the hello girls stayed longer than most doughboys. many were there as long as two years, most for well more than a year. why? because of logistics. how will you get them there and how will you get them home. you will need communication the whole time. the other woman who died during this period of time was well after the armistice and will after woodrow wilson came back to the peace conference. that was louise and ramone. i wanted to say about this, when they got home, they came back expecting it hero welcome but received something different. it tur

france is in a melt down. portugal non—existent. france is in a melt down. portugal non-existent. thank - for russia. non-existent. thank god for russia. greece... how can we sit here with great faces and talk about britain in melt down supported by 80 billion of newly made money every month. it would go down at once. the reason why theresa may is not able to start the process properly, she doesn't wa nt the process properly, she doesn't want to. the people feel that she's relu cta nt. want to. the people feel that she's reluctant. the only way to deal with the eu is to walk away and say if you don't go with our terms, we are walking away and you are finished. coo the eu is desperate for britain to stay on. who do you talk to in the eu that tells you they are desperate. give me one name? every s signal they make, oh, desperate. give me one name? every s signalthey make, oh, please desperate. give me one name? every s signal they make, oh, please come back. we're saying effectively hurry up back. we're saying effectively hurry up and get on with it. the eu is crumbling, financially

>> reporter: thanks, frances. the opinions from global leaders and international organizations have been resolutely clear in rejecting donald trump's decision yesterday to withdraw from the paris agreement on climate change. in a word disappointment was most often used but some went further, noting as my colleague kristin said that the u.s. was now in the company of only two other countries, nicaragua and syria, in rejecting the pact. some like mary robinson, a former u.n. envoy said that president trump's decision renders the u.s. as a rogue state, on the international stage. global leaders seemed most alarmed by president trump's offer to exit the paris agreement and then re-enter under renegotiated terms. france, italy and germany released a joint statement calling the 2015 accord irreversible. but engaging thi major polluter that showed resistance in the past. yesterday the prime minister of china was in brussels recommitting china and the european union to the paris accord and committing new money to helping

france in a moment. the result of the uk general election has resulted in a dramatic drop in business confidence according to the institute of directors. they polled 700 business leaders over the weekend who warned that quick progress was needed on brexit negotiations. so, how is the city feeling? steph mcgovern is there this morning. hello from just outside the bank of england where lots of people are starting their working week wondering what on earth all of this political uncertainty now means for them? and not political uncertainty now means for them ? and not least, political uncertainty now means for them? and not least, businesses across the country looking at what impact it might have on them. we have gotjustin with us. there are lots of ways at looking at this. one, the currency, we saw some movements last week, but that's sort of stable. and two other areas, confidence and confidence. business confidence. consumer confidence. business confidence we've had the institute of directors report out s

here in france a few weeks ago and now he is france's president. really managing to shine on the world stage as a result of things beyond his control. the calendar with the g7 and the declaration made in the rose garden which donald trump reminded the world of his particular brand of internationalism. it is hard to believe it was less than a month ago. on may 7th, emmanuel macron was the youngest man elected to france's presidency. >> mlet me say a few words. >> reporter: also the first ever to make speeches in english publicly. >> wherever it will leave, whoever we are, we all share the same responsibility. make our planet great again. >> reporter: it was a stinging rebuke to what president trump announced in the rose garden. >> i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. >> reporter: within hours, macron's call was the most widely shared tweet from a french account. leading the question to whether the french president was now the leader of the free world. emmanuel macron's first steps on the world stage were sure. >> congrat

you're watching live from paris on france 24. are our top stories. standing shoulder to shoulder, and thean chancellor french president held a joint aws conference, demonstrating renewed sense of common purpose between paris and berlin. qatar under pressure. arabia, egypt, the u.a.e., doha just 10 days to comply with 13 demands. the closure of the al-jazeera news channel. continuing their investigation, say thates in the u.k. a faulty freezer unit sparked tower, int a london which at least 79 people lost their lives. >> good evening. we begin in brussels, where e.u. leaders have been gathering for been dominatede by the issues of migration security and the u.k.'s departure from the bloc. this one year to the day since the brexit vote. the british prime minister theresa may made a proposal to those present that e.u. citizens the u.k. residing in will be allowed to remain. but the proposal was given a lukewarm reception. officials said that a lot of work needs to be done on the process.on the german chancellor angela merkel called may's proposal a good

-- france 24.com for a round up of the papers. we are going to take a short break, but live from paris continues on the other side. stay tuned. you are watching "france 24." ♪ ♪ musicic [loud raindrops] narrator: torrential rain in the dry season. flooding when there's nonormally droughtht. desert where trere used to b be grass. ♪ music narrator: tens of thousands of deaths in cities across europe from freak heat waves. even more taken to hospital. is this a taste of our future? dr. patrick kinney: climate change is already profoundly affecting public health across the globe. narrator: evidence is moun

france and england fans show their unity before their international friendly match in paris and less than three weeks before wimbledon, rafael nadal pulls out of the warm up tournament at queen's. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with cricket and with the icc champions trophy has reached the business end of the tournament. it's semi—final time as england take on pakistan on wednesday before india face bangladesh on thursday. the hosts though are expected to make a change at the top of the order for their match in cardiff with openerjason roy likely to be dropped. our sports correspondentjoe wilson is in the welsh capital assessing all the talking points. england come back to cardiff and beat them but perfect? well, there is always room for improvement and we sort jason roy fielding on the boundary during pratt is. players walloping balls towards him. england will name their team the day before the match but if best comes in, brawdy would back him. jonny ba i rstow brawdy would back him. jonny bairstow was the next man in line and he is a fine batsmen. what he does

of nato allies france and the u.s. alongside other. nato allies in two thousand and eleven which eventually helped lead to the removal of colonel gadhafi was actually wrong a mistake and he said that he doesn't want to make this same mistake in syria. france did not participate in the war in iraq and this was right but it was a mistake to enter the war in libya what are the result of these two invasions destroyed states in which terrorist groups thrive i do not want this to happen again in syria. you know one of the other big things that came out of that interview was his views on the syrian conflict at the moment and president said that he now believes the removal of bashar al assad which has been called for by france in the past by his predecessor. and that that is now not an absolute priority he says in fact that president assad is not a is not an enemy of france and actually what needs to happen now is that there needs to be a diplomatic solution he basically said that he's been given no evidence that there is a vi

france is this the bit where we will see the making of a mo eadern dy france >> you have the macron phenomenon there's no doubt about that. but policically, the old political mold which held flarac back since mitrione. you have the disenfranchised on the hard left and hard right but who will only get a dozen members of parliament. this is the opportunity for macron to build something and tear down the old walls. >> i don't nknow, but we've seen in renzi, in tsipras, in trump how does he get over that problem of once he's in problem getting things done? >> macron what he's done, he's done a lot of brilliant things, including that handshake with trump which he worked out carefully. he does his homework there what he is, he's the perfect incarnation of the elitist french reformist orthodoxcy. everything he stands for is there. we've been talking about it for 25 years but he's managed by breaking the old mold to present himself as the insurgent which he's not he has a much better chance than sarkozy before him or other would-be reformers >> gentlemen, i think will you stay with us clair

chris froome knows what it takes to win the tour de france. tomorrow, he starts his quest for a fourth victory in this famous race. media interest is always sky—high, but this year, froome's team roll off the start line the subject of an ongoing doping investigation, and with questions looming over their leader's credibility. i've been involved in this sport a long time and i've tried to do it absolutely the way that i've always thought it should be done. and i'm proud of what we've achieved in this sport, and i'm proud of this team. evidence from sir dave brailsford and other team sky officials to mps earlier this year, revealed an alarming lack of medical record—keeping. it all relates to a package alleged to have contained a banned substance administered to sir bradley wiggins shortly before he went on to win the 2012 tour de france. team sky and sir bradley deny any wrongdoing, but the issue has presented the sport, and the head of its world governing body, with a familiar problem. certainly the reputational problems that have been aro

of nato allies france and the u.s. alongside other nato allies in two thousand and eleven which eventually helped lead to the removal of colonel gadhafi was actually wrong a mistake and he said that he doesn't want to make this same mistake in syria. france did not participate in the war in iraq and this was right but it was a mistake to enter the war in libya what are the result of these two invasions destroyed states in which terrorist groups thrive i do not want this to happen again in syria president mark owen said that he now believes the removal of bashar al assad which has been called for by france in the past by his preterist sesay. is now not an absolute priority he basically said that he's been given no evidence that there is a viable successor to ensure that syria doesn't become as what he described a failed state as libya and he also said that the key now is to ensure that terrorism is the top priority and he's called again for this issue to be dealt with by a coalition of countries coming together and he s

let's start in france. about the are talking aftermath of sunday's second round of parliamentary elections. the spotlight on with the new parliament sector looks like. >> they talk about the new face of the french parliament, the lower house of parliament, the assembly national. .t got quite a facelift of the 577 lawmakers, 430 were not in the previous assembly, so quite a turnover. 75% of the parliament was really, a record in france. the change that was promised has arrived. fresh faces in parliament, april that is younger and more feminine. the parliament has changed so much, you would not recognize it. mps hasage age of dropped five years, 48 years and a couple of months. and a record number of women elected to this lower house of .arliament as well, 233 women that brings up the percentage of women in parliament to 38.65%. that is also a record high in france, but a little bit far from the 50% which would be a gender inequality in parliament. this parliament is drawn praise because it is younger and mor

in france they've got a nobody president... my point is, there is a lot of thinking in europe that we might get very fast to a point in which britain should show that pragmatism sometimes can trump pride. do you mean not going ahead with leaving the eu? there are people inside the eu who have always wanted that, it does not mean they will get it. people are expecting britain to show realism. it might be that two years down the line, when the deal is on the table, and it is clear that it is a disastrous deal, because there is no way of making brexit a success, if the deal is really disastrous and in the meantime the economy of britain has crashed, is it wise and pragmatic to say to the people, do we really want to do this? i think you are absolutely right, it is politically probably impossible to reverse brexit. but i think a fudge becomes possible for the first time, and it depends on how the two years of talks go. with respect, alexander, all the polling done about the election so far doesn't suggest this was about terrorism,

not so in france — the euro strengthens as macron‘s new party, en marche, takes control of french politics. a very good morning to you from westminster. it is five o'clock in the morning here. everything looks very much like business as usual, doesn't it? a few days after a general election, it is anything but. britain's prime minister, theresa may will meet her new cabinet this morning. it's the first gathering since last thursday's general election in the uk plunged her government into crisis. mrs may will also meet the wider party, many of whom are furious that she's lost the party its parliamentary majority. not only will the cabinet have to deal with problems created from last week's vote, also looming on the horizon are the talks over britain's proposed exit from the european union. here's our political correspondent tom bateman. back at the heart of government. michael gove‘s last regular appearances on the street would be fought theresa may became prime minister. she sacked her old opponent are bruising referendum campaign. he will now sit alongside borisjohnson. the two men spec

seven people from france wounded in that attack. this evening we are expecting candlelight cedar ridge it 6:00 p.m. local time in london and then a moment of sill epps at 8:00 p.m. francis. >> lucy kafanov, thank you. >>> late last night at a fundraiser at forbes theater in london president trump made his first public comment about the london attack. >> america sends our thoughts, our prayers and our deepest sympathies to the victims of this evil slaughter and we renew our resolve, stronger than ever before, to protect the united states and its allies from a vile enemy that has waged war on innocent life and it's gone on too long. >> this morning president trump is turning focus to court brock executive order limiting travel from six muslim countries. people, lawyers and courts, can call it whatever they want but i'm calling it what we need and what it is, a travel ban. the justice department should have stayed with the original travel ban not watered down politically correct version submitted to the supreme court. he said, quote, w

and france about europe. in a sense, the u.k. as opposed to the creation of the your mean community in the '50s and eventually they joined the european community because if they couldn't beat it, they wanted to join it. >> rose: right. >> but it has always been a sort of transactional decision. in 20s and 30 year olds maybe because the continent has been devastated by the world war, there is also something emotional about europe. so it is very difficult in a sengs to win an election by running a sort of anti-europe. and marine le pen, the opponent wanted france out of the european union, out of the euro, and that was something which was touching a nerve in the french public opinion, even if the french are critical about the european union. >> rose: because of chancellor angela merkel in germany who is up for re-election, but polls are more favorable than they have been for her, and the success of macron, might this be also the development of a better relationship between germany and france who have always lead yawrp. >> the messa

he's not the only "american idol" veteran vacationing in france. jennifer lopez is lighting up paris with alex rodriguez. ♪ j-rod was living it up, all right, in the city of lights. the couple of four months showed off some of their fashion style for their long weekend trip to france. the pair held hands while checking out the sights. even stopping for ice cream. come on now. j-rod's trip kicked off on thursday with some sunbathing on a yacht in the south of france. 47-year-old j-lo rocked the monokini, while a-rod took a plunge into the water. after a visit to monaco, the pair arrived in paris on saturday for a romantic night out. jennifer showed off her curves in this tight pink look. just 99 bucks. the mom of two looked like a million bucks in another budget friendly outfit, instagraming a pic of this $209 dress, with the hash tag vacation vibes. bull for a trip to the louvre, j.lo changed things up with a $3,100 gucci outfit. he posted this picture of his girlfriend in front of the mona lisa. yesterday, the couple jetted back to the u.s. a-ro

france, the centrist party has won a large majority following round two of voting on sunday. party one 351 seats in the 577 seat national assembly. they fell short of the pretty landslide, this is one of the biggest majorities. largest withe the 131 seats. looking ahead to the headquarters where claire williams is standing by. it's good to have you with us. it's a clear majority for macron. the party is really trying hard to push back on accusations that these new and experienced mps, half were people from civil society and not from the political sphere. they are trying to push back that they won't be good for democracy. rivals are saying they might not be rave enough for the national assembly to stick up for what they believe. they may not be able to debate and they may be too eager to toe because they own their careers to him. the party is saying look, these people are going to bring diverse city and new representation to the national assembly. to read it it needs needs more shaking up and these new candidates will bring in experiences their predecessors didn't have. >> it'

france's supermarkets shelves are overflowing with strawberries. they come from fields like these where laborers toil away on a daily basis to meet consumer demands. these workers are guaranteed the french minimum wage. it currently stands at 1150 euros per month. gather more than 1000 kilograms of crude, they are paid $.86 for each extra kilo. producers are struggling to find enough strawberry pickers this year. one of the reasons is the difficult working conditions. >> to protect my back and legs because we have to walk a lot in the field. areit is true that people often indifferent to the work. sometimes people are just not motivated enough. they say it is too hard and they quit. reporter: for the first time, he is relying on 15 moroccan farm laborers to carry out the work, but it wasn't easy to bring them over. he had to prove to france's employment agency that he could not find any french seasonal workers. it is up to the immigration office to do the hiring. that hasomplex process led many producers to illegally employ workers, k -- paying bel

for the french fans, the tour de france has always been a tradition to them, growing up and watching the tour. that is one of the special things of the race. families come with a picnic and a barbecue, and that is one of the beautiful things the tour de france has that is unique. those fans shouldn't change anything. british taekwondo history has been made today. bianca walkden has become the first uk fighter to defend a world taekwondo championship title. walkden beat american jackie galloway 14—1; in the +73kg weight class in south korea. 0ur 0lympic reporter nick hope is in south korea. bianca walkden faced a very different challenge as she headed into these championships, compared to two years ago, when she entered as the underdog. then she was back from a second knee ligament injury, but she's gone on to become the world number one and bronze medallist at the olympics. her rivals couldn't get anywhere near threating heard today. after dominating the semifinal, she simply blitzed away through the final itself. she beat jackie blitzed away through the final itself. she beatjacki

s here in france for the next five years so the vote is now may be over but it's clear that france is at the beginning of something new and what kind of you good or bad it's too early to say. ok all right thanks maria that was a refund option for us in paris. now at least sixty two people have been killed and fifty nine injured in a massive forest fires currently sweeping through the central central portugal four children are thought to be among the dead many people were burned to death in their cars two as they tried to escape the region the fire broke out on saturday afternoon and quickly spread engulfing an area covering one hundred square kilometers portuguese prime minister's describe what's happened is the biggest tragedy of its sought in recent years three days of mourning have now been to clay . let's go back to our breaking news this hour reportedly stormed a tourist resort near the capital of mali in west africa people living near that resort have reported hearing heavy gunfire. there's no word yet on casualties though some reports say there may be a hostage situation the re

i'm frances rivera. breaking overnight president trump's travel ban could be heading to the supreme court. before midnight east coast time the news broke that the white house is looking for permission to immediately enforce their executive powers on preventing travel from six muslim countries. nbc's tracie potts is in the capital. where do we go from here? >> reporter: we go straight to the supreme court which is exactly where president trump said he was going to take this when the lower courts turned down his initial travel ban and his revised travel ban. bans traveling to the united states for people from six mostly muslim countries. that was the issue. the courts have said because of what the president said during the campaign about banning muslims, they believe this travel ban is unconstitutional because it is religious discrimination. what the justice department late last night asked the court to do was two things. they want to see this travel ban in place while the legal issues are being worked out

>> this is france 24. these are the headlines. the u.k.of silence in in memory of the seven people who died during an attack on around london bridge saturday night. this as new details come out about the third attacker reportedly an italian national. u.s. that forces in syria begin a final push to take back raqqa. the city is the de facto capital of the islamic state group. afternic buying in qatar six of its neighbors cut off ties with the country, saying it supports terrorism. also coming up, what kind of isolationqatar's having on its flagship airline? those details coming up in business. secondld do jump off the story of the eiffel tower, even if you had a zipline? more on the people that did that. coming up, this is live from paris. we start first in the u.k. where a minute of silence was just observed in memory of the seven people who were killed in the london attack late saturday in the meantime, british police have released more details of that two of the three london bridge attackers. van saturday, they drove a into a cro

themat going to make decree in france? structural implement is high and france for a couple decades now. for that and this will be one aspect that will be thated, but you are right clearly it will be a sign that things are moving, that towardal -- is moving proper level markets. with this tightening with germany, the german unemployment rate is set to close in on 4% this year. whereas the french implement rate is still 50% -- employment rate is still 15%. >> its 20 years back now. it's going to take a while before we see improvement in the labor market. things are going the right direction, definitely. within the u.k. elections, do you think investors are moving and from u.k. stocks considering more seriously going back to the euro and france stocks? >> there is optimism about the euro area again. it's not just that. it's also the other story that has improved are medically. thate same time, it's true stocks in the u.k. have increased after the election. we have very little about what brexit will look like or what the fram

i am extremely bullish on france. it has gone up dramatically. >> let's talk about the reality of labor market flexibility. it does not lead europe there or the western world at all. the challenges for president macron are pretty big. can he achieve that? for someone who has run cisco, as you look at the company, to invest in france, how hard is it with labor laws the currently exist? what you have to look at his three things. first, i had a chance to get to macron when he was minister of the economy. i have been on sessions with him in front of mba students at schools. we have done joint craft interviews. i have seen how he is evolving. if you watch the momentum with the prior government, they are a country i think will disrupt others. i would be very careful to judge the french as only a place to go on a great vacation and have dinner. it is also a great place for business. does he have issues to address in terms of tax regulation and the social issues from a labor perspective? yes. and my optimistic he will bring t

reiterating france will not recognize russia's annexation of crimea. he says he doesn't want to talk for the sake of talking. he wants concrete results and tangible progress. he wants progress. he's going to propose withdrawal of troops. he's going to propose that tangible results can be shown. >> he wants this format of talks to happen before the g 20 summit in early july. >> it's a tall order. he is trying to strike a pragmatic note. these talks are essentially in a stalemate right now. even as the conflict on the ground is still very much an ongoing firing across the demarcation line. to resolve that conflict have been dead in the water. he wants to convene this before the g 20. we are talking hamburg next week. it's a very tight time frame. the emphasis is to get everyone around the table. he was pretty tough with vladimir putin. we don't know what he said to him behind the scenes. said russia had invaded ukraine. he's not going to give much slack to either side. be tough with the ukrainians and russians. >> on the domestic front in he wanted to cl

"> welcome to "france 24 newsroom. a look at the headlines we are following. thesecond and final day of eu summit in brussels. migration is the main focus area brexit still looms large. u.s. republicans unveil a new health care plan. some say it hurts the poor. paris goes for the gold on this olympic today. the city pulling out all of the stops for its bid for the 2024 olympic games. anchor: the eu summit continues in brussels this friday. globalization and migration the main focus of today's talks and likely step up backing for the libyan coast guard. the migration agency said some 70,000 people have arrived in italy from libya this year. and that time, almost 1900 people have died trying to cross the mediterranean. the two-day summit has been overshadowed by discussions of britain's departure from the bloc. to theresa may sought reconfirm people living in her country's future will be resecured. people in the uk's who made their lives and homes and the u.k., no one will have to leave you we will not see it torn apart. it is a fair and a serious offer and i wa