in october last year in france, pictures of 2 top level bosses at air france with their shirts rift to pieces were shown around the world. there will rough go by air france employees who were angry about plans to cut too close to 3000 jobs. some of the protesters have been handed suspense -- suspended sentences. >> one year from the event of that caught the trial and the verdict coming in from the judge here in northern paris. the most serious charges are violence towards the 2 bosses of air france. the defendants were found guilty is 2 were acquitted pretty three found guilty, suspended prison sentence between four and five months. the gravity of the accusations but it's a mixed outcome that shows the confusion of what occurred a year ago at air france's headquarters and the confusion in the trial itself. throughout the trial, much of of evidence on video footage the legal teams from both sides arguing to what extent that demonstrated the evidence of with their defendants and that is why that confusion indicates why the legal teams and they are devising and they will tell the clients

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we'll go live to france in just a moment. plus, latest on the great transition, team trump starts to take shape. yo, adrian. america's favorite underdog celebrating a big milestone today. put your dukes up. "power lunch" starts right now. >>> hi, everybody. welcome to "power lunch." i'm tyler mathisen. here is what is happening at this hour. the record run on wall street rolls on. the dow, the nasdaq, the s&p 500 all, all of them hitting all time highs. we're also seeing a big move in oil, crude rallying at this hour by about 4%. highs not seen in quite some time there, 4770 is the quote now. we have got a lot more on all of these market moves straight ahead. sunoco acquiring energy transfer partners in an all stock deal expected to close early next year. and tesla says its acquisition of solar city is now officially done. we got a busy two hours coming your way. we kick it off with michelle caruso-cabrera live in paris for us. hi, michelle. >> we're here to interview marie la pen, running for president of france, elections c

it has been france more impacted. you can see, with the italian market, they are pricing and more concerns about a referendum there. -- france has just come onto the radar in the last two weeks or so. argue something about the link between economic stress and populism. about past, you can talk how, when it came to electoral outcomes, "it' the economy, stupids," that phrase seems to ring loud. now, we see a rise in populism. i have this map here, just zooming in on europe. we have seen political tensions increase. we also seen them with the brexit vote. in hungary, a fairly populist leader. there is not this link anymore? europe, the> in largest economy that really likes globalization is the u.k. inthe u.k., we have had june, brexit. anna: very different paths, just like brexit and the trump vote. id: these economies, coming out of the financial crisis, have not been strong enough. financial policy and everything else. we are seeing it across these. france, in particular, some -- in particular, globalization is not tha

you are watching "france 24." it is time for businesses with delon of desousa -- with delano desousa. >> ambitious is the keyword. theresa may says her plan will be ambitious for britain and for business through the prime minister pledged to billion pounds in spending on technology and research. this as she addressed company executives at the annual ministry conference. she hopes they will back or plan to create conditions where winners can emerge and grow in britain. the prime minister also announced a desire to cut corporate tax rates to the lowest among g 20 nations. aim is not simply for the u.k. to have the lowest corporate text rate in the g 20 but also a tax system that is profoundly pro-innovation. this is a comprehensive package designed to set us on the path to becoming one of the best places for research and development in the world. our modern industrial strategy will be ambitious for business and ambitious for britain. it is a new way of thinking for government, a new approach about government steppin

will you look at this, frances? look at this money. your brother must have hit a daily double or perfecta. put that back. put it back. come on over here. hey, where's my racing form? rodney, nobody's talking about racing. hey, pop, you look frozen. sure i'm frozen. i just got hugged and kissed by snow whitey. i'll be right down. all right, darling. take your time. ahh! caught you, didn't i? what? caught you trying to steal the money we was saving for a stereo. i wasn't stealing it, fred. i was just puttin' it back. see there. see, you was trapped by your own words. the question is, mr. intermarried, how could you possibly be putting it back in there if you didn't take it? ahh. see? case closed. and that's grounds for divorce. and i'm gonna divorce you from my sister by the power vested in these... i gotta tell you something. fred, i gotta tell you, frances said you were funny, but you're hysterical. sis and broth. um, i like the way you see the humor in my father's stuff, but just for the fun of it, i'd like for you to tell me how you

france is still the most popular country of the world. business for france, big business for their in economy. the numbers are expected to fall more and more as we have seen past the attacks of the year. this trend is expected to continue. has been badly hit with both attacks and robberies. in some of these robberies, asian tourists in particular have been targeted. a bit more about the knock on effects. great to see you. this clearly is a crisis for you and the people you represent. >> it is a crisis. it's a big problem because especially north america and asian tourists, there comes not that much. they are ace -- -- the state of emergency is a state of war. cancellation insurance. her -- you see there had there have been terror attacks -- the other angle are these criminal gangs. it is a very cynical and nasty way to be. problem -- the robert knows they have cash on them. anchor: it is a culture of role -- of walking around with cash. guest: we have some brigade of these people. exampleese people, for -- it actually goes quite well. ish

probably what makes the difference is that france will arrive to very late -- france francois arrived really late. fillon, francois appeared as a challenger and he won in the last limit of timing and also because he had a very focused program on right-side people. again, i think the other candidate addressed his message to all french citizens and maybe appealed for men be people a little -- for many people a little bit too close from last time in's right to enough. -- and not right enough. thinkne: you seem to fil will havel a littleon france. he will bei think obliged by the way to have a everybody around him because we need to have only one candidate to represent right side and center here in paris. otherwise, we will have difficulties. again, to win the battle against the extreme right and the left side. so he will now and i am sure work on a new program that will be not far from the one he was elected yesterday but taking into consideration also what the other candidate had in his program into taking into consideration they have a mixed vote program to make the most powerful progr

>> personally i'm not worried about france. i think france has been a sleeping beauty. we've been resilient throughout crisis. we've been trying to protect our safety net. now the problem is, do we want more private led growth? illon wants to make sure that corporate tax goes back to the european union. the idea is to see if we can do some supply-side reforms when we think the man is kicked in. we know demand is fragile because of the very cheap oil prices, because of the very accommodating monetary policy. the question is how are we going to do it? francois fillon those for shock therapy. the question is whether france can absorb the shock therapy. all the waysitions from the unions to the middle class. if you have reforms that are very regressive, i don't think they will be easy to implement. it will be the proof in the pudding. france, i think, needs another set of reform. we've been reforming, maybe slower than other countries, and the question is, will we maintain our deficit below 3%? will we finally unleash private sector growth? we've been targeting innovation t

rippingrn to the shirt case in france. as you may remember last year and are france workers, angry about a restructuring plan that the shirts oforok two executives. three former employees have been given suspended sentences of 3-4 months of organized violence. 10 more people were find for a damaging airline property. >> the incident had come to symbolize the 10th state of labor relations in france. -- the 10th state of labor relations in france. executives to escape the scene. over a year later the verdict is out. of the 15 who stood trial three have been found guilty of organized violence. others were find for damaging company property. it angered the union and satisfied air france. >> this verdict is scandalous. won for violence they were not the victim out. >> air france is being a knowledge as a victim of these assaults. so have the two individuals who were assaulted. accused were acquitted. he says he would like to be able to turn a new leaf but he is unemployed. >> i am satisfied because justice has been served. it w

when he goes to france, and he sees france society. you leave your country and you think there are bad things about your country and you go someplace else and you think, at least we are not like that. that was his attitude. he is in france during the pre-revolutionary period and people are starving. there's unrest, riots, all kinds of things and he said we have problems in america, but this place have a lots of problems and it's just on the road now to the able to solve some of those problems because he was in favor of the french revolution. it gave him a sense that we have time to solve our problems as well and the other thing that happens is he's in france with jane and sally hemmings who are his wife's half siblings and he begins to treat them there in a way-- he pays them wages and he is starting a practice that he continues when he comes back home. whenever he is in a city and he's mixing enslaved labor and free labor he pays everyone. he's living there with these people who have an opportunity to be free because every person who

france needs energy and i have that energy. france needs experience and i have that experience. >> i would say to the french people watching, don't be afraid. don't be afraid to go against the polls and the media, whoever decided everything for you. don't make regulations. don't choose to vote for one candidate to eliminate the other. vote for your convictions. for more on this, i am joined in the newsroom by our french politics advisor. before, this was a two-man race but you believe -- has pushed himself had enough? anything,n't bet because the polls have been wrong infficiently recent times. and it is the first time such a primary has been held and the key will be be turnout. we don't how may people will cast their ballots on sunday, and on the following one for the round two. what is clear is that this has been last weeks news. -- has been surging in the polls and some put him in the second put a must the winner. and this is a surprise because he has delivered the same vision, a sober, somber of safety in france. with cutti

>> i'm pretty sure this would be in france. right, allison? >> yes. >> obviously the french train is coming in. you can see the french soldiers there lined up as honor guard. >> allison finkel stein, how did this whole concept of unknown soldier being honored come about? >> it really goes back to beginning of mechanicization of work, more unidentified remain, more in the civil war. people were struggling with the fact they couldn't figure out who many of these casualties were. great britain and france in 1920 buried unknown soldier in each of their countries, great britain, westminster abbey, so the u.s. decided to do something similar to that. the idea was started by representative hamilton fish of new york who presented legislation to bury an unknown soldier in the u.s. i believe in france where the unknown soldiers were taken from four different cemeteries. >> i'm walked through those streets before. it's interesting to see, to me, how many people turned out. not just the army as we can see mostly in the scene but french civilians showing t

. -- and show that it is the best program for france. we won't be seeing a softer side to francois fillon? we would not change it. i can't explain it in english right now, but one type will be for homosexuals and the other one for heterosexuals. juppe: his win against was outstanding in many ways. is 30%. fillon was the outsider. account for this meteoric rise and massive win? guest: we have said from the beginning it will begin with the debates. meeting people, french people. they discovered his program was serious. the last debates made a world of difference. >> it is somewhat of an unknown quantitative, we know the prime minister has been around for many years. but he hasn't been at the forefront of politics in france for a while. does that play to his advantage? this sense that he has been an outsider? guest: the french people it is -- as unknown really -- they were really well known competitively. when he was prime minister, you always say that facing bankruptcy -- and this speech of truth appeals to french voters. >> does he think

military academy and the academy of france. those go away by the second world war, but they are very strong in the first. >> two questions. first, is there any parallel withallied countries, french americans, russian americans, greek americans, italian americans having the same thing where they are having to prove that they are bona fide? and during the war, there is a official propaganda, so i wonder from there taking cues interwar or prewar stuff you have been talking about? >> ethic committees -- the british and french do not have because their loyalty their goals line up with the united states. russia is a more complicated case. the russian revolution is extremely important because it proves to americans that the war might have the positive benefit of bringing democracy to russia, an issue we are not done with century later. people who come from eastern europe, the hope is if you can bring democracy to russia, create a poland that make sense, create a czechoslovakia that make sense, the war might have things that are positi

aill ahead, france sets up new one-stop shop. yes, we will talk to the chairman of saffron who was appointed to lead that effort. ♪ from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am vonnie quinn. mark: i am mark barton, this is bloomberg markets. let's check in on the first word news. alisa parenti has more. sa: here's fighting between iraqi forces and the islamic state is underway in which -- villages in northern iraq. syrian border, fighters have gain control of a highway linking mosul to another city. the u.n. warns the new paris treaty on climate change will not be enough. unless more pledges to curb emissions are made, the climate is headed for catastrophic change. a report for next temperatures will rise by six degrees fahrenheit and that could lead to rising sea levels, superstorm's and deadly droughts. a nationwide poll shows hillary clinton -- donald trump has cut the clintons lead by two thirds. 42% in aeads 45% to race that includes third-party candidates. economists -- the economist is backing hillary clinton for

: this is france's rust belt, north east of paris. slag heaps and heavy machinery preserved in industrial museums are all that remain of coal mines shut down two decades ago. there's high unemployment. the working class here have followed a familiar political route of abandoning socialists like president francois hollande for right wing populists. >> ( translated ): the front national is like a vulture party. that is, it chooses something that is decreasing, poor, complicated, and tries to seize it, which is exactly what they did here. >> ( translated ): there is a wall of silence that's descended on the town. we think we're being observed by the national front, and anything you say can come back and bite you. >> reporter: the national front was founded by jean marie le pen, who famously described the holocaust as a detail of history. he was expelled from the party last year, by his daughter marine, as she sought to soften its image as one of the most extreme right-wing groups in europe. france has the largest muslim population in wes

frances? >> bonnie, thank you very much. >>> taking a turn now to the latest on that horrific school bus crash in chattanooga, tennessee. authorities say that a sixth child has died from injuries sustained in the crash. five children remain hospitalized. the driver, 24-year-old johnthony walker, faces several counts of vehicular homicide. the toxicology report shows no signs of drugs or alcohol in his system. however, walker was not driving the approved route. >> in the course of looking at the history of tally road, we just ascertained that tally road was not on the designated route for that school bus. that's one of the things we're exploring, is a, has he done it before, b, if, so, why? >> and witnesses tell investigators walker was driving well above the speed limit. the local board of education has confirmed that it had received complaints about how walker operated his bus, and several relatives of victims say he was a known problem. >> it was about him slamming on brakes on purpose, maki

great men of france, a grateful fatherland. so not surprisingly perhaps, into last year, only one woman was buried there in her own right, mary curie. but actually what you see in this picture, the trickle or draped over a coffin is not actually the bodies, who was the niece of the general, not the daughter. now, the families decided to actually the great detection and so long ago they didn't want their bodies disturbed. so actually they agree to some soil from their graves being carried to the pantheon. nonetheless, it was a pretty major change in how e-mail -- had been viewed. and thus bozell looking at why it's taken so long, there are many reasons, and explain them as look at the individual stories, but i think the main reason is that female heroism so we didn't fit the myth that general de gaulle constructed when he returned to paris in the summer of 1944. among the other reasons are women's natural modesty, if you like. they did want to talk about the awful times that you lived through. they wanted to push it behind them.

more importantly france has a two-round election. which means in the second round, the winning candidate has to get over 50% of the votes. he will pen is polling around 30% right now. that's a shift given in france the center left and center right unite to keep the far right out. that said, we shouldn't underestimate that risk. >> what are the strategies we've seen on the part of political parties in france is actually parties joining together, rival parties joining together and trying to block votes for another party. do you see that happening next year in a big way? they're so frustrated with their rise? >> yes, i do think that will happen again. less dramatically as in 2002, when it was sort of 82% of the winning candidate as a consequence of that. that said, even just last year in december, when they had the regional elections, the same thing happened. the center left candidate withdrew. the center left supporters were urged to vote for the center right candidate to make sure marine le pen is kept out. >> i happened to speak to a

they are saying i'm ready to die for france and give my life for france and there were people who did give their life for france including several people that are in this photograph. joyce, of course, dying symbolically on july 14, 1916, in the service of the french army. this is mary roberts rinehart again. i think no one captured what was going on in march of 1917 better than did mary roberts rinehart. in late february, 1917, after germany declared it would resume unrestricted submarine warfare and after the zimmermann came out, german asking mexico to create a german-mexican japanese alliance and if war begins asking mexico to invade the american southwest to get back everything that it had lost in the mexican american war in 1846-1848. that's serious stuff. and i can tell the story of that because it's brilliant if you want me to. the point is all of that was out there. and it still wasn't clear what president wilson was going to do. he said, i'll go to the white house and skin him alive. said theodore roosevelt. political partisanship is not new, guys. mary roberts rinehart sat d

that is coming up next on "france 24." molly: president barack obama is currently in greece on the first stop of his final foreign tour as u.s. president. new strip will be dominated by questions and concerns about president-elect donald trump. obama is working to reassure foreign leaders the u.s. will not abandon its partnership, despite tough campaign rhetoric that said otherwise. has more onaricas the president upon visit from athens. nathalie: there are high expeditions in greece over president obama's arrival. more crucially, he has been speaking and calling again for meaningful debt relief, which is music to the ears of greece. the chief of the administration is hoping for the u.s. literature for the more cover greece's role in the southeast mediterranean, but also the balkans and also in the context of the huge referee -- this huge refugee crisis. greece has received hundreds of thousands of refugees in the past two years, but also a boost itstrategic significance to position within the wider region. but also with r

-- either germany or france, excuse me -- trust me. if either germany or france decide to take over the belgian coastline. britain wants belgian neutral is so nobody can use it against them and the reason france moves slowly, one reason, is the british made it clear they are no happier with france controlling the coastline than they are germany. one side is clearly acting in defense and the other side is clearly not. true that pershing wanted to keep troops -- michael: he said he thought it was important to drive home to the germans that they had lost. as good as that argument looks in retrospect, nobody was willing to do it with him, including woodrow wilson. nobody was willing for sound political reasons to take the victory you got and risk throwing it away by putting an army into germany itself. >> one more question. they had the spanish influenza. 1918. could that have been germ warfare from germany? no.ael: we think it probably started in kansas, for riley, kansas, probably. >> how is the rental was hl mencken -- how influential w

how long do you think it will affect france? we have all experienced this strikes and the problems that france has had in the past. they're a very well organized union, labor groups, back and make it difficult for this to happen. how big a mountain does he have to climb? what you must have in mind is that the recent protests happened because francois h ollande was not elected for this. back in 1995, sakshi rock had a different -- jacques chirac try to do very hard reforms. this is different. fillon is already saying what he will do. to vote for him, it means they will agree with this program. it's really different this time, and i also want to say that he already has a huge experience on protests and hard reforms. he already has had millions of people in the street and he managed to do the reforms anyway . i'm thinking about retirement, for instance. he knows how to do that, and he will, because people will vote for him on this platform. matt: alexandra, we hear a lot of talk about where london banks will relocate if the brexit

>> france are struggling. fillion -- fillon is advocating a profound transformation, a radical transformation of the french society, to get back on the proper trajectory of growth and excellence. trya: didn't alain juppÉ to bring about those reforms himself in the 1990's, because he failed? every french leader realizes there is a huge black -- backlash. there is ongoing protests. isthat's where fillon revolutionary. the difference between 1995, when there was very social policy, executed with alain policy, whichal we did not vote for, fillon has chosen to be very clear up front about the program. he's doing that in three years. to be clear to people on what they are voting for. he thinks that, if the democratic contract is clear be mandated by the people to execute the french transformation, which more and more people in france understand. it's also different from 1995. people understand that we need to get retirement at 65 and not 62. laura: wouldn't this kind of agenda put off left-wing voters? the only cre

migrants, some of them do not want to ask for asylum here in france. they have no interest in going to any of these retention centers. are nervoushey about getting sent back to their country of origin. really in the next few days we expect the camp to be dismantled, but what will happen next? we just don't know yet. laura: thank you, claire williams there. and the cartoonists of charlie hebdo to those covering the war in syria, it was a deadly year for journalists. a new report by unesco says 115 journalists were killed last year, most of them in conflicts in syria, iraq, libya, and yemen. three years ago we lost two of our own colleagues, they were killed covering the conflict in mali. >> they had just finished interviewing a top representative of the rebel group when they were kidnapped by four men. kilometers ton 15 the north of the country and killed. the culprits have never been identified. north african branch of al qaeda has claimed responsibility. former colleagues say there are questions over whether or not their deaths were linked to the rele

women in france until 1946. women couldn't have their own rank accounts and couldn't have a job without the permission of a father or has been. this is a key element to the background of this book, but i really have to say this is not women's history. this is made chewing history. this is the history. the other piece of background is france's complicated relationship with its jewish population. in the wake of napoleon onward. and so from eastern europe to france because this was the country of the enlightenment. they thought they would have a homeland in france and because of the large numbers in france, many french had a complicated response in their number i still know from that case of course. he was what brought them to france but didn't always find it. this picture explains what is known as the french paradox that is solemnly approximately 76,000 were deported during the war as the total population on the eve of war at 330,000. so you can do the math that's approximately a quarter. what one has to explain t

>> welcome to the france 24 bedroom. it is 1:00 p.m. in the french capital. migrantlear a makeshift camp in northern paris. several thousand people being relocated to temporary shelters. germany summons turkey's envoy arrests a dozen pro-kurdish mps. the historic paris climate deal officially goes into effect. putting pressure on nearly 200 countries to slash greenhouse gas emissions. ♪ >> we begin in france where police and city officials have cleared migrants camped out on sidewalks in northern paris. people boarded buses to temporary shelters for processing. 2000 andsay between 3000 migrants have to move into the area. let's cross to france 24, joining us from stalingrad, the neighborhood where the operation took place earlier this friday. efforts have ended. do we know what his next? said, the operation has ended. it went on for six or seven hours. the camps are empty. all dozers have already started clearing the tents further down near the metro and underneath the metro. we expect them to make their way up. later today. around 3500 migrants were best w

i am pretty sure that would be in france. right, allison? you can see the french train coming in, and you can see the soldiers lined up with the honor guard. post: how did this whole concept of the unknown soldier come about? goes back to the mechanization of warfare that you see expand during world war i. you get a lot more at identifiable remains. of course, you had a lot in the civil war, but people were struggling with the fact that they could not figure out where many of these were, so they buried an unknown soldier in great britain, westminster abbey, and that in france, it triomphe,the arc de and it was started by representative hamilton fish from new york, who submitted legislation for various unknown soldiers, and i believe they are in france right now, where the unknown soldiers were taken, four different cemeteries. includes san mso iguel. and the psalm? youyockelson: yes, i think are right. i have walked through those streets before, and it is interesting to see how many people turned out, not just the army, as we can see mostly

ande is one dual citizen one moroccan man who was not a resident in france. they were communicating by a closed network with encrypted information, as you said. they have been friends for a long time, according to the prosecutor. three out of the five user went to syria or tried to go to syria. it is believed they were not in direct contact with the other man who was arrested in but investigators believe it both of these groups were separately in contact with who is guidinga them toward carrying out a spectacular attack of some sort on december 1. nancy: can we listen just a moment to what the prosecutor had to say? the antiterrorist prosecution begins today. an investigation on charges of involvement in a criminal terrorist cell with plans for attacks on civilians, of acquiring, storing, and transporting illegal arms and munitions, category a and all with ties to a terrorist organization. bethe five individuals will presented before a specialist magistrate before being investigated and placed in temporary custody. nancy: given all this new information, what

welcome to live from paris here on france 24. coming up in the next hour, a warning from m facebook's finane chief networks 10 billion dollars off the social networks value. will be the show we exploring france's obsession with the baguette. vowing to appeal. the british government says it is disappointed by a high court's decision that stipulates the u.k. can trigger an exit from the european union unless lawmakers give the green light. theresa may had previously announced breaks it proceedings would begin -- brexit proceedings would begin late march 2017. this is a momentous unprecedented decision. going to be unprecedented. it shows how conflict -- complicated this process is. we know the british government having lost this case is now going to appeal. this case would normally be heard in the high court. what is going to happen is it's going to jump a stage and go to and leapfrogourt directly to the supreme court here in the united kingdom and see if it can win there. i gather that space hahas been cleared in the supreme court

and what is going on in france? obvious exhibitionist populism coming back to the floor. is that in your view? seen.s is what we have cois is the most reformed candidate in the primary. he is out of the mainstream enduse he is advocating an to layoffs of large numbers of public employees. he may have been able to cap into resentment -- been able to tap the into resentment. david: having heard him, he is calling an end to the federal movement in europe. he is against big government and more for privatization which feels like it is a rebellion against the establishment. >> it is true. he has opposed federalism in europe. he is not opposed to more integration in the eurozone. he is in favor of privatizing additional parts of the french government, which is something most economists would advocate and something i would say combined with his labor market reforms should have a chance to revitalize the french economy. alix: what is his back to the presidency now? most: because he is the antistatist candidate, you could hav

>> i'm pretty sure this would be in france. right, allison? >> yes. >> yes. >> obviously the french train is coming in. you can see the french soldiers there lined up as honor guard. host: allison finkelstein, how did this whole concept of unknown soldier being honored come about? allison: it really goes back to beginning of mechanicization of work, more unidentified remain, more in the civil war. people were struggling with the fact they couldn't figure out who many of these casualties were. great britain and france in 1920 buried an unknown soldier in each of their countries, great britain, westminster abbey, so the u.s. decided to do something similar to that. the idea was started by representative hamilton fish of new york who presented legislation to bury an unknown soldier in the u.s. i believe in france where the unknown soldiers were taken from four different cemeteries. guest: i've walked through those streets before and it's interesting to see, to me, how many people turned out. not just the army as we can see mostly in the scene but

france is gone. france has exited north america. it's divided its territory between britain east of mississippi and spain in the west. basically, a gave its territory west of the mississippi to spain to keep it out of the hands of the brits. if you you look bottom right of a little pink area, red area. what we would now call haiti. we are accustomed to hearing on the news that it is one of the poorest countries in the western -- westernit in hemisphere. in 1763, it was a jewel in the french imperial crown because that was the island that produced sugar and coffee. the problem was, you have 30,000-40,000 french colonial population, and close to half a million black slaves, a powder keg. but france is gone. and then you look at the map on your left. so britain fought this world war. churchill called it the first world war, was victorious all around the globe. in america, they acquire this huge empire now. stretching to the mississippi, which is what brits have been fighting for for a long time. get rid of the french and their indian a

allison: i believe that is a representative from possibly france. the unknown soldier received medals from great britain, the victoria cross. from france, all of these different nations wanted to show their support for the american and participation in the first world war. host: so those are the laying area the medals on to the holding the casket. allison: you can still see those at arlington national cemetery. they have them in the collection. host: look at those crowds and you can also see washington, d.c. how undeveloped it is. wide open spaces. mitchell: the folks that made it over there. there are thousands more who couldn't make it because of the large turnout. allison: i also think it is interesting to note the people on the roof of the memorial ampitheater. some of the best photographs we have of the ceremony were taken from above. host: and also how unconcerned really they were about presidential security. today there just could not be people up on the roof like that. there would be snipers watching the crowds and protecting the president.

governmentted the before france followed landes -- before france holland -- before fracois hollande. that is going to be a key issue as we move forward into 2017. anchor: reporting their from france. president barack obama left europe in what was probably the last time in his capacity as head of state. earlier today he spoke with key leaders, thinking of for their cooperation during his time in office. as obama left aboard air force one, he didn't speak to reporters, the next stop on his tour will be peru. an economist and a member of the board of directors from the atlantic council. thank you so much for speaking to us. clearly a lot of concern in europe. what president elect trump said on the campaign trail, there is nothing for eu leaders to go by because he hasn't held any political office. they are more alarmed than the media is making them out to be? >>'s first appointments demonstrate that as a campaigner he will be equal to his performances as a president. conservativeeme, and initiating very harsh political feedback. one democratic congressman said about jeff sessions, who i

fillon france will -- laura: france will host countries assad. to delegates will attend. have accused them of exploiting political uncertainty in the u.s. to launch an all-out war on rebel held areas. >> around 4 million people are currently under siege in syria. not only in aleppo. that is the reality. they are making the most of the uncertainty in america. france is launching an initiative. we will set up a meeting of the friends of syria group in paris very quickly during the coming days. -- also working on sanctions to condemn the syrian regime's use of chemical weapons. those comments, amid a worsening situation in aleppo. dozens of civilians have been trying to flee as the syrian army advances on the rebel held eastern districts. a quarter million people are trapped in conditions that have been called horrendous by the united nations. catherine has more. as the bomb building still burns, rescue workers struggle to free a child from the rubble. caring for her and all the others injured in the newly intensified airstrikes is increasingly complicated. bashar al-assad's

in france, where people are saying france does not trust politics any longer, a huge turnout for us. the second thing is the big gap between francois fillon and alan juppe. such a big, with gap, more than 15 points, ahead of francois fillon. francois fillon is certainly going to win the primary election. caroline: you have said francois fillon is sarkozy minus the show. why would you say that? francois fillon used to be the prime minister of sarkozy. he has about the same lines on the economy. he wants less tax, less public sector, less state intervention. he is basically the same as sarkozy, but minus what makes the voters dislike sarkozy, which is too much political fallout, too much affairs, and too much provocation. it is the provocation that finally the right wing do not see why to take the risk of sarkozy when you have francois fillon. there used to be another front runner. do you see any chance? bruno: i do not see how we can see a big gap in this week, --en to pay -- and lng pay and juppe seems to be in good position. francois fillon, i cannot speak to what would [indiscernib

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anchor: we begin in france where investigators are saying a group of terrorists were planning a december 1 attack. they believe disneyland paris and the french police intelligence headquarters were among the potential targets. five suspects have been charged. two of them according to the paris prosecutor have traveled to the turkish syrian border in march of last year. >> under orders from the islamic of the men, five arrested last weekend, accused of planning attacks in france, acts to using encrypted communicate. their actions overseen by the syrian iraq region. accused of storing and transporting illegal arms and planning to attack civilians, evidence uncovered show screen , indicating potential targets, including the french intelligence agency headquarters. paris, a metro station, a church, and a library. technical examination has allowed us to establish that it -- that an attack was planned. we can't determine which of these areas where the precise targets chosen. >> police don't believe there was direct communication. instructed have been to acquire arms by a member of the islamic

french president france holland has warned the u.s. president-elect donald trump against tax tracking on america's commitment to fighting climate change. trump has called global warming hoax and said he wants to withdraw from the agreement that was signed last year in paris. -- re speaking thatnde said he hoped would not happen. >> i so badly wanted the paris accord, your -- you will remember it took place in a particular context after the november 13 attacks. all the world leaders were there. there was a decision to make, a decision on the future of the planet, the environment, and avoiding climate change. is irreversible and that is what i wanted to indicate very clearly in marrakesh. our correspondent told us that people are worried that the u.s. pledges looking less than solid following trumps election. >> people here are worried, it is not exactly a party atmosphere but there is defiant and there is some optimis. people are trying to stay positive about the future of the paris deal. we had -- francois holland said that the paris d

does it make you want to come back to france? >> not necessarily. i don't think too much has changed with that election. i think it's the true america that we are seeing. we can pretend not to see what is going on, not to acknowledge what is going on, but it's just what it is. really wanted to elect a woman and -- because orders have to come from men and i think it's deeply-rooted in the american scheme right now. it could be the same in france as well. i don't want to compare both countries. i understand both of them very well, i respect them very well as well. the only positive note i could say about trump's election is that the people voted for him. they didn't vote for a republican. they voted for him. so in a way he is forcing things to change in the political picture right now. before it was just democrats and republicans. i think he's bringing something else, whatever something else might be we will know within the next year or the next four years. i think that is healthy. we need real change. we need change. and maybe he is going to be the s

france is now looking ahead to 2017. in the wake of exit -- brexit in the u.s. elections, nothing should be taken for granted. >> business news, now. >> we don't know what he's going to do, but he has some ideas that some good for some, frightening for others. we have been hearing it for ages -- france needs economic reforms to make the economy work. drastic changes could be on the way. the generous working conditions in france, like the 35 hour work -- 35 hour week, to become a thing of the past. there is one hurdle. the french love them. >> french newspapers are already speculating about a shift to the right. the man chosen to represent the conservative party has not been holding back in his promise to shake things up. >> these past five years of presidency have been pathetic and we need to put an end to it. we need to move forward again in a way that we haven't done for over 30 years. he has pledged a radical change of course. here are just some of the things he is planning to do. he wants to reduce corporation tax. and introduce radical cuts to government sp

and what might come up in france. for the national front there's a long way before they can think about winning the elections. it's a vote of people that want to say no, but i don't think that today there is a majority of the french people who are ready for this kind of populous adventure here in france. >> mr. devillepin, this is carolin roth from london. you say le pen won't have major chances of winning this election because of the reasons you outlined. what about nicholas solas sarko people say he is well equipped to tap into peoples anger. do you think he could ride on the back of what happened in the u.s.? >> he could try to capitalize in that direction. but we are talking here about the primaries. he's on the top of the fight with le pen who has a different personality and perspective, but i think people will think about the consequences. it's a little bit -- our situation is a bit like the day after the brexit. so, people now are thinking so what, is there going to be really a big change in the u.s. policy? do

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for more let's bring in france 24's eu correspondent. this motion is nonbinding but it is still highly symbolic. >> indeed. it means that meps and the majority in fact voted in favor of that resolution to freeze membership talks with turkey further eu membership. it means they are extremely worried about the past turkey has been -- path turkey has been taking. thiss why we saw earlier a debate in a very lively manner with meps who voiced how turkishn about authorities were not on the right path. they called on them to stop imprisoning members of the opposition party. head of the liberals say he's extremely concerned and that it would be the eu's stake ifty would be at it turned a blind eye to erdogan taking his country done a very authoritarian route. the turkish president says this has absolutely no value whatsoever. but he's also very frustrated with the way he feels his country has been treated by the european union. these talks have been very slow over the last decade. there has been very little progress. that is led by china and rus