frances perkins' work. how many of you know someone who is working a 40 hour week, generally more or less? frances perkins' work. how many of you know a 12 year old who has quit going to school so that she can work full-time in a factory? frances perkins' work. her ban on child labor enacted in a fair labor standards act made it possible to keep kids in school longer instead of in mills and factories. let me start by telling you a little bit. it is awfully noisy here but let , me tell you a little bit. i want to read a little bit of the prologue from my book so that you know a little bit more about the breadth of frances perkins a congressman's. on a chilly february night in 1933, a middle aged woman waited expectedly to meet with her employer at his residence on east 65th street in new york city. she clutched a scrap of paper with hastily written notes. finally ushered into his study, the woman brushed aside her nervousness and spoke confidently. they bantered casually for a while as was their style and sh

frances: yep. i agree. [womanan speaking russian] [drum beating rhythmically; people singing] [helicopter approaching]g] [singing continues] frances: when they asked us to go down to the chopper and greet them, i didn't know who i was really greeting. and now that i've spent a few days with them, i think in a year's time, i get my passport, you know, visa, and whatever is required. we are gonna visit a couple of villagers there... weather permitting. the struggle through life, most of it is not all happy. i've gone through a great many things. but knowing ththat you had times where yourur heart w j just fufull... that helps you t to remember tht there's gonna be a better time ahead of you. with a billion aft i'm skyrocketing inequality in the united states still called itself a genuine representative democracy why has it become the plutocracy and what could be done if anything. to cut the gap between the rich and the rest in this up from special anon gear and are us and also allow for debate one of f the bi

of the france that fights, of the only france, of the real france, of the eternal france. really what de gaulle was doing i think is proclaiming the return of a freed and independent france, taking its place once again in the world community. as well as getting back to the french population the pride of dignity of being france. and discounting that french governments that collaborated and cooperated with the germans. de gaulle and this government was the real france, the eternal france. well, that same evening, de gaulle began organizing a parade for the following day. a parade that was to celebrate the liberation of paris, but also a parade to let everyone know, both friend and foe alike, that de gaulle was the leader of france. there could be no question. and so, that next morning, it was a saturday. again, it was a warm, sunny day. word spread across the city that at 3:00 there was going to be a grand parade. and precisely on time, general de gaulle arrived at the arc de triomphe. this is a photograph of him in front of that paris landmark, where he first placed flowers

an ideal brexit would mean for france. your prime minister held a meeting at which you were present today to launch the ideal brexit plan that the french government has. what does it involve? and how worried are you, for example, about the prospect of some of your road transporters have said, a prospect of massive tailbacks and delays of up of massive tailbacks and delays of up french ports? i do not want to enter into too much technical details but of course, a high brexit would have negative consequences, the first of all for the british economy, but also for the european economies, especially for france because we have a close relationship to the uk. so we are preparing, we have a plan, we have technical decisions that are currently —— that we are currently taking to face such a situation. once again, i really hope that we will not have too faced the high brexit and such a difficult situation. the clock is ticking towards march 20 nine. -- have to face. it seems highly unlikely that the british government will be ab

this is they don't it is life from birth in the church bells across france ring out in tribute to the north for down just minutes from that cathedral bells across the country will chime together expressing the solidarity of emotion of a nation still coming to terms with monday's devastating fire. i'm still going welcome to the program my words from across france will ring out in tributes to not shut down the country's beloved gothic cathedral was gutted by a massive fire on monday night president macro convened a special cabinet meeting today to discuss an ambitious reconstruction plan he says he wants the church restored to its former glory within five years well we're going to bring that to you live here on that date just ahead that's let's introduce you to our guests luke andre is a freelance journalist for the opinio and radio france and that been. responded lisa lewis has been reporting from paris during the last few days and joins us again from the french a couple outside not to welcome a both let's start with you lisa tell us a bit about what we'll go to see and hear over the n

if i compare what i see in twenty nineteen the last twenty years in france. what i can see that the situation has become really difficult that. maybe the situation has really changed we were still very young when we lived there but we shouldn't forget that france is a country that is still rather tolerant and we shouldn't forget its positive sides . visited the family in two thousand and fourteen in a suburb often it was shortly before they emigrated to israel the family had thought about making it to israel for a long time and waited for a good moment to move with this three children i started with city and southern israel became their new home. in the beginning it was a long held dream to go to zion to go to jerusalem. later rise in incidence the whole situation has deteriorated with regards to the jewish community here for the push to finally go ahead with it. it is a new if you want it gave us a sort of pretext to finally go for it. is really put it to regularly call in jews living abroad to come to israel in light of attacks so anti semitism it does not

what could france achieve from behavior like this now in the importance of france russia. from the story clearly has been one of the key partners in europe and around the world. who we are. were the allies in the war against germany in world war 2 and next year the french president will come to the celebrations. i would like to thank him for accepting the invitation but our relationship with france says far deeper roots france is also a permanent member of this human security council has a nuclear arsenal and. does play a very important role in international affairs. and the relationship between russia and the you to a large extent depend on that we know what is the decision making process there parts france to support and many issues. particularly on the return of russia to the council of europe has played a role and a major role perhaps even a critical role in that. so i don't think we need any additional evidence that we value our competition with france and again talk about the economy $500.00 companies from france operates in russia i like to assure you that their pre

never let go there of dozens of african countries in which france prints its own currency the franc of the colonies and with that currency french public debt is financed by italy's been ruffling matt corns feathers for a while including in its support for the yellow vests movement been a french as i hope for the good of the french who are a great people that they come out of this moment of crisis macron was a laboratory invented product to stand in the way of any change on the horizon that seems obvious to me now. all while rome's hand of friendship is being offered to world's other e.u. nations disgruntled with an influx of migration including hungary in poland they calling for a european spring french president has taken up the fight media difficult ordeal and he's just like it is indeed clear that today there is a strong opposition between nationalists and progressives and i will not give anything away to nationalists and to those who deliver this hate speech and so if they wanted to see me as their main opponent on their right. france and italy have many bones of contention immi

and bombardment, the bombing of various parts of france took place all over france because it is the aria for americans if they had bombed just normandy it would give germans the belief that the invasion would come there. in fact, the french expected it to come further east than it did. so, they had an idea of where it would be but they actually didn't expect it to be in normandy. >> mary louise roberts is our guest. she is history professor at the university of wisconsin madison and author of the book, d-day through french eyes: normandy 1944. that is our focus for the last part of our program this morning. it is the experience of french norman citizens and the initial invasion of d-day. if you're living in the eastern and central time zone, that is the line to use. mountain pacific time zone and for those of you who have french ancestry, french americans that line is 202-748 minus 8002. particularly interested if you have stories of relatives or ancestors who lived in normandy or france at the time of the invasion. just a couple of reminders on the timeline of the invasion. we are

of france and dumped in a concentration camp in france called the gers camp in the shadow of the pyranees. in posed a clalg to u.s. policy. because when the jews arrived in france, the frefrm didn't want him imthem, the vishty french led mri marshal patan. they immediately turned for the ups and said to the u.s. government they noted that fdr talked a lot about resolving this tackling in refugee crisis. and they said that the u.s. should be willing to put -- to take action to support the rhetoric. and accept their fair share of jews expelled from nazi germany. but the state department recommended f.d.r. that he turn the french request down. the reason given was that if the german government succeeds in expelling, deporting in group of jews they will try the same trick in other parts of germany. they will repeat epgtically cleansing. it they have ethnically cleansed this part of germany. they will ethnically cleanse other parts of germany. with hindsight we can say it would have been a good idea to expel all the jewish population but we didn't know this at the time, because this is before

france france but let's say that france used to beat the partner in france speaking africa but nurul good is is the on going to could in your name of took down who are rooting the show there you know very well that the chinese are there the russians are the saudis are buying land there everyone is that africa is just show us. it's time for african countries to see that to try to sort out the problems within the going to take an orderly does get back to our using the mineral resources of the country to stay in power to corrupt ok well. all of that still the problems is not just to do with the french and european it's to do with african leaders themselves and it's to do with ok let me let me just separate to pillage let me let me bring the conversation back a little i hear you're saying let me pick focus it back to immigration and you know that's where france and italy are both dealing with the tale what does italy want from the european union when it comes to immigration. well italy wants solidarity that's one word for it they want they want to for all europe to come together and find

you are starting in france. the country is getting ready for these massive strikes, land this thursday to protest government pension reforms. as that is happening, another protest is already blocking petrol supplieies in wesrnrn francece. brian: representatives of the french conststruction industry have been blocking major fuel depots since friday. managers and workers using heavy equipment to cut off access to at least four sites in the western region of brittany. gas stations either closed or lined with customers over the weekend amid shortages. proposal bynce ---- a the gogovernment to end the tax-free status of diesel fuel for non-transportation uses. industry representative have been invited to the finance ministry for talks. they said they will keep up the blockade until the plan is scrapped. it's going to cost us money, and i have employees. i respect them. i want them to get paid. they get bonuses twiwice a year. i want that to continue. if i can't pay that, sooner or later, things will get rough. they h

., germany and france whose actions had a direct impact on the fates of these families. by publishing this book in association with kinopf, they're helping readers understand the human impact of these american responses on the mothers, fathers and children caught in the crosshairs of nazi brutality. as they desperately sought to obtain an immigration visa. so it is now my pleasure to introduce the author of "the unwanted," michael dobbs. he's a writer and researcher with the u.s. holocaust memorial museum. a longtime "washington post" reporter working as a foreign correspondent around the world. he's also written many, many books, including "six months in 1945" from world war to cold war. and one minute to midnight about the cuban missile crisis. delighted to be here and delighted to welcome michael dobbs. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, andres and marvin, for your kind remarks. so perhaps i should tell you a little bit about the title and subtitle. actually finding a title was very difficult because you have to compress the entire theme of 300-page book into two or

dangerous extremism in france a country targeted by islamists both at home and abroad and it's only just coming to terms with the new reality on through a string of the recent attacks in recent. what is the french know how containing tara compare is due. to come together in the face of radical extremism. thank you very much for being with us today hello so france's bill eight ticks and border controls with its neighboring countries for another six months to a persistent terrorist threat if this measure is so effective in combating terrorism maybe the border controls to return of the borders should be permanent. distance with this question brings forward two problems first we are in the schengen european zone where there is freedom of movement so when isis was around there was a very strong terrorist threats against europe and notably our country in particular was bloodied by terrorist attacks isis planned to infiltrate via the muss of columbus' time immigration networks which destabilized the functioning of europe dormant networks to attack the states that were sending armed forces to fi

of france energy giant e.t.f. was still optimistic that the mama weighted project would soon be going ahead of the project is that if it was our aim is to load the fuel rods to the reactor in december 28th that's an ambitious deadline but we're used to such challenges in this industry is it was a true this is the challenge of this to get. the deadlines wasn't met another delay was recently announced. but at least the flow monday nuclear power plant still has a future the plant infested mine does not the country's oldest nuclear power plant is about to be closed but the risks it poses to the public remain. locals need to know what to do in the event of an accident including school children if disaster strikes they have to stay in their classroom the school is just 4 kilometers from the plant. sure we know it could happen we're very aware. for them with. this close up of ok i'm a bit scared that something could happen but not of the time that we know this case contains protective equipment for 4 classes did you know

france's president of. japanese charts a comeback been meeting for talks in the french city of toulouse on the agenda is the conflict in syria u.s. trade tensions and brags that a few moments will cross live to that joint news conference in the city ahead of that take a look at matters arising with the political cost of simon. simon these talks important well i think i think they could because there's a lot for these 2 leaders to talk about as you know these 2 countries germany and france the motor of the european union so they want to talk about the reforms that are necessary the shape of the union going forward but they've got a lot of other international topics like the conflict in syria and and so on and of course they're also holding this event today the 2 governments the 2 cabinets you can see they're meeting to talk also about industrial policy that's why they're meeting in toulouse which of course is the headquarters of the air space from us because this is this is an ongoing writers in the german f

. >> i looked in my rearview mirror, and it was frances. >> frances, the wife in the other. >> i get her little finger. >> the middle finger? >> right. >> i start following her. >> i said, what the hell? >> she brakes. and i brake. and i heard a thump. >> he's pronounced dead at the hospital. >> a case of road rage? >> you're getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex? >> uh-huh. >> a hollywood love story? >> this was the man i wanted to marry. >> or, a fatal attraction? >> he goes, i can't get rid of this person. >> and so many about to lose so much. >> why? >> i will live with that for the rest of my life. here's andrea canning with "collision." >> reporter: this is the story of two fiery women battling for the heart of one much-loved man. it's about sex, secrets and lies. red-hot texas passion and a bitter feud. all leading to a final showdown on a two-lane highway. >> bexar county, 911. >> i got a black escalade and a black range rover. they're hauling ass, acting like idiots. >> reporter: a high-speed chase that went horribly, horribly wrong. >> it was a nig

do france's ferry march threatened like never before actually we participates in the syrian coalition but we also have a vast operation for establishing security in africa so we have a menace which comes from outside that's one threat and massive number of french citizens are in syria about two thousand with their families they are now in hiding because they know that we are waiting to prosecute them in france with some have been locked away in prison in syria during a military campaign against isis. but isis is not defeated yet politically or socially it is maybe close to being defeated militarily but they still keep their tools and services they still have followers of these and so we don't know. why their propaganda on the internet through oh why do you think that now that i says almost defeat ate their internet propaganda is still as dangerous as before. yes yes of course because when you do something you have to have people know what you did. on the second thread i want to talk about that exists in france is a thread from the inside to flip it exists in our territory there are pe

they were taken by train to the southern part of france and dumped in a concentration camp in france called the -- in the shadow of the pyrenees. this pose a challenge to u.s. policy because when the jews arrived and france, the french did not want them. they immediately turned to the united states and said, they said to the u.s. government, the motive that fdr talked a lot about resolving, they said the u.s. should be willing to take action to support the rhetoric and accept their fair share of the jews that had been expelled from nazi germany. the reason given was that if the german government succeeds in expelling and deporting this group of jews, they will try the same trick in other parts of germany. they will repeat ethnic cleansing. if they will ethnically cleanse this part of germany they will ethnically cleanse other parts of germany me. in hindsight, we could say it would have been a good idea if they were allowed to expel the entire jewish population. but we did not know it at the time. this was before the death camps had been created. so, fdr essentially did the state dep

from berlin tonight europe's heat wave is getting hotter france records its highest ever temperature and climate experts warn that this is just a taste of things to come up we'll bring you the latest from a sizzling southern france also coming up tonight chinese president xi jinping prepares to meet his u.s. counterpart for make or break trade talks at the g. 20 summit in japan trump is threatening more tariffs on chinese goods if the 2 countries fail to reach a deal and a rescue ship laden with african migrants defies italy's orders to leave its waters country's interior minister calls the captain and who faces arrest and expulsion she tells him i have no time for you. i'm bored gov is good to have you with us it has never been this hot before in france today parts of france experienced their highest temperatures on record the mercury reaching in one place a whopping 45.9 degrees celsius an early summer heat wave has been scorching countries across southern and central europe the un's weather bureau says this is consistent with patterns expected as a result of climate change in fran

of history it represents france. i feel like. it's just crying now it looks just to me. i feel the cathedral has been snatched away from. the. cultural heritage its front that's been hit today france is there any of us to do with. our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with what paris and the whole world lost today a massive fire gutted notre dame cathedral to see the catholic church this medieval monument to french gothic architecture has been a fundamental part of the parisian soul for almost a millennia or tonight it took only an hour for the flames to turn notre dame's wooden frame and its towering spire recognized the world over into a smoldering relic. a heart rending sight as the spire found striking at a symbol of french culture in the heart of paris. the massive blaze spread on words collapsing the roof and setting the wooden frame of the entire cathedral aflame. the alarm went off shortly before seven in the evening local time no saddam is burning spreading a brown black cloud across the sky her reasons and

ability since last july i think the position of france which is of course a new paradigm which is a shift must also be put into consider taking into consideration for very. obvious agenda you mentioned the domestic agenda it is true that as bit as been a lot shouted on this position in regards to the internal policy. this leading him not to have a diplomatic agenda which of course is has been put aside with the presidency of the g. 7 and starting with the g. 7 summit in delhi it's really assessing the necessity to be a president confident president speaking not on behalf of europe as i mentioned been on behalf of the most healthy as country in europe germany is in with the cancer under michael in a very difficult internal policy the coalition between a speedy and who is a bit weak and of course we've seen in the recent regional elections that extreme right as a lot. put a lot of pressure on the council here in great britain the agenda of the brics it is now linked to the internal survival agenda of brian johnson bringing him not to be having a say or not sufficiently willing or bein

truman was sent to france, along the front lines in france, mostly in the argonne valley. truman faced a challenge in the war once given command of battery d, and what has become known as the battle of who hoorun. they had moved the field pieces into position and had fired off a volley, the germans fired back, and there are shells firing all around. most of the men broke and run b ut truman did not. that is where he showed his first test of having courage in battle. he served in the mountains. when the arm assist -- armistice was reached, heated didn't have to fight anymore. he wanted to use some sightseeing. he took men from his unit and they traveled around mostly southern france to see various sites. he would write to beth from various locations, once from monte carlo. he wrote, dear beth, it is a gaudy place. just what you would expect from a place whose sole income is made from gamblers. the fleecing isn't done at the casinos but the cafes. truman was able to return to the united states in the spring of 1919. on the way back, his battery members gathered together and

frances perkins' work. how many of you know a 12-year-old who has quit going to school so that she can work full-time in a factory? frances perkins' work. her ban on child labor enacted in the fair labor standards act made it possible to keep kids in school longer instead of in mills and factories. let me start by telling you a little bit. it is awfully noisy here, but let me tell you a little bit. i want to read a little bit of the prologue from a book so that you know a little bit more about the breath of frances perkins' accomplishments. on a chilly february night in 1933, a middle-aged woman waited expectedly to meet with her employer at his residence on east 65th street in new york city. she clutched a scrap of paper with hastily-written notes. finally, ushered into his study, the woman brushed aside her nervousness and spoke confidently. they bantered casually for a while, as was their style, and then she turned serious. her dark, luminous eyes holding his gaze. he wanted her to take an assignment, bu

the school picnic protest in france over declining living standards descends into violence with demonstrators damaging property and drop a nice to point take us and just and i. know and will be had to bring you a roundup of this week's biggest stories but right now stay tuned for the kaiser report. yes there's the kaiser report on mash kaiser this is our last show in paris and then we go on to other countries almost so excited you know that if i heard about it we're going to talk about it and go talk about the french economy yup they have one here 6 u.s. well in fact this is black september that is what they are promising there are also many people out there who say well nobody covers the g.l.a. zone anymore and that this is a conspiracy one thing you do notice is that they do not appear on the day anymore because the police have successfully kept them from there so paris is a sprawling city and there are continuing to be protests despite you know having been august and they don't come back from summer vacation until mid september but one thing i wanted to note is that there is a lot of atten

hit by the equivalent of an l b d or a flash bang as they are flash ball as they call them here and france where 24 people have lost their i right you know it's interesting this trickle down militarization and targeting of civilians that we see in global conflicts is now happening more on the local protest so you know we normalize the idea that civilians are targeted in a war now they used to be against the geneva convention and used to be against the rule of the war but now this is been normalized and so now on their day protests. you know you also see the militarization of protests in the targeting of civilians with the military grade weapons well actually what you see with robert chalmers piece in g q is there not specifically randomly necessary targeting ordinary civilians they're targeting people who are journalists medics and bloggers people who get interviewed participants in israel asian who get targeted because they go on the news and they tell the story so that's why i think it's quite interesting that the i the eyepatch that i being taken out 24. people here in and france have l

the minister of the european affairs here in france retorted with this france refrains from giving lessons to the telly salvina and to milan should learn to sweep their own doorstep. well the two countries have been out to show those troops for some time more recently finding themselves on opposing sides of an international crisis that's happening in venezuela with france amongst a number of e.u. countries deciding that they will fall through their full weight behind the national assembly declared himself into a president that we do meanwhile italy decided it would reject that and has remained supporting the democratically elected president maduro for the moment it seems that these relations between france and italy two countries who are neighbors two countries who are part of the european union the two countries who should be strong allies is getting worse and worse. french president micron was among a number of european leaders to recognize the venezuelan opposition leader as the interim president however not iran and paris is on board with the decision socialist think ahead well and sho

thisis is "france 24." here are the headlines. spain's trial of the century gets underway today. 12 leaders in court over the failed bid to bring independent to the northern region of catalonia. number inocking france. the anti-semitic acts jumped 27% lastst year. what the government calls the poison of hate. and donald trump charges ahehe with his plan to build a wall on the u.s.-mexico border, despite a tentative deal from u.s. lawmakers that would mean far less money for the wall to avoid a new w government shutdown. also coming up in business, how french winemakers are hoping a new industry even in paris will help boost their sales abrbroad. you will see some of thousands of different likes lit up at the international lantern festival in china. but first, our top stories from paris. ♪ >> we will start with what has been described as the trial of the century in madrid. 12 separatists are in court today charged with their role in the region's failure for independence, turning it into spain's worst political crisis in years. th

and france. at this point washington does not seem to be amused the let's put it this way and this there from france is pretty unusual because they're not going after profits after texas but after revenue but at least for once silicon valley is applauding the current administration there are a mess of lobbying efforts underway sold to kind of support the u.s. government to not just let this new fly but we don't have just to talk about france also the united states there are debates going on how to text those digital call peroration about to come back to your question that will that trigger a new trade dispute that is really true earlier at this point for now washington just said they're looking into the matter well we'll know more in a few weeks but stay with us because there is more to address now during that tech tax debate in paris finance minister bruno lemaire also took a strong stance against facebook's fictional currency libra this is what he had to say it needed to finish and if they don'

currently france is leading 3-0. we will have more on the tournament later. sudan, the prime minister of ethiopia stepping and offering to mediate talks therebetween protesters and military leaders. the main alliance of opposition groups said it would be open to him arbitrating, but only under certain conditions. among their demands, that the ruling council take responsibility for the deaths of dozens of protesters during the crackdown on monday. potentially complicating matters further, the opposition leader was detained by security forces according to his party. this was after a meeting with abiy ahmed. we have more on the conditions being demanded by the protesters. >> the in -- the conditions include that the council takes responsibility for the attack that took place on monday. they want an investigation into what happened during that attack. they would like political prisoners to be released. where heone politician was actually reported arrested after the meeting, and another was arrested a couple of days ago. these are the types of things that they wan

it's been good for france it created jobs and possibilities. cedar eliminates roughly 98% of terrorists on all commercial goods between the u. in canada it provides protections for region specific goods like french rock for cheese it also allows european and canadian companieies to compete for government contracts in both regions. opponents including farmers and environmentalists say cedar comes with unacceptable ecological and health risks. to the compliments this trade deal will have unprecededented and dangerous consequences for the planet for our agricultural model and for our public servrvices. theyey worry it c could allow imports of meat fromm animals raised on hormones and animal bone meal that are banned in europe and that it could boost imports of oil from canadian tar sands some off the world's mostt environmenentally damaging. opponents also alarmed by an arbitration system that could allow multinational companies to effectively sue governments over policies that damage the commercial interests more than seventy unions and environme

also a fury up not only of the franco german friendship because the value of this friendship between france and germany is also a friendship because other europeans you allow other europeans to share in this friendship without franco german friendship we will not be able to fulfill our mission and to rebuild the mission that history has given us namely to keep europe together in peace and freedom bring your object either in peace and freedom respecting all of the different colors all of the different sensitivities of europe all of the different realities of europe and pushing it in the same direction. in the franco german history quite often there have been well. conflicts this irritation. was one of the neighbors of the french and the german particularly the smaller ones suffer it a lot. but the prospect that this will never happen again gives the necessary karma. and rest from the continent for it to flourish and so on franco german french it is the guarantor of the peaceful future of europe and when the french and the germans share this friendship as they do with that. as long live franc

maybe even in france as a whole. jane: extraordary how quickly -- how much you take these landmarks for granted until something like this happens. knowing the area as you dowhy was it so difficult for firefighters to get to it? president trump suggested using planes with water cannons. why couldn't that happen yet go -- why couldn't thn? hap philip: that might have seemed like a logical thing to say at the time, but this is a whole different story here.th civil defense authority in france felt like it had to come out with a tweet written in english, the only one they wrote this whole evening in english, in which they described why that was simply not realistic, why no planes could flight above notre -- fly above notre dame cathedral and simply dumped tons of water on top of the spire. hese would have been tons of water and they woue destroyed this wooden structure in the end. it was simply too risk the french authorities. the president was wrong here. it seemed to be another one of his instinctive tweets. that is one

france is starving. the allies recruiting french teenagers and old farmers to fight for the resistance could actually feed them. they are getting food dropped from the sky, and so this became -- they needed a lot of female traits to do this job. i don't know that they were better, but they were sort of more naturally equipped, and they taught the allies that in fact this was a very important part of the job that was being invented on the ground. this was the first time this kind of warfare had ever been tried. there were no plans. they discovered that was a really important job for a spy and women were really good at it. other questions. yes? >> how did you come across this story in the first place? >> okay, i'm a reporter, and i had been doing a lot of freelance work, and i knew i wanted a book. i knew i wanted to sink my teeth into a long project. i'd been doing a lot of the sprint, where you hit send and something ends in the paper the next day. and i wanted the marathon again. this was in 2015. i kne

france has the fourth largest forests in europe. behind sweden [inaudible] finland [inaudible] and spain. spain's planting new trees that's an impressive right but not nececessarily for ecological reasons a large proportion of someththing's on test destitineo be cut down and tended to paper. critics say the help spread the forest fires that devastate suede's spanish woodland every year. u. k. meanwhile is planning on planting some fifty million first over the next twenty five years. great to fast new forest in the north of england. those are among the best trees [inaudible] style sign. to get some more in depth lookk at hohow froronts is green spaceces and doing in twey nineteen i came here to power is his biggest com the one divivine sent. to meet at least five rounds she's the forest manager the ngo from nature. hi and leave hi not thanks for joining us today we are hit in the blood of on set in paris but tell us in general all over france. all forests at risk. no plea for four says missile but very the remote native french forest

here's france minister for transport. in the following days the prime minister will give very concrete guidelines on the new pension system. so i hope by the middle of next week we can make a very concrete progress with the unions in the strike will be over as soon as possible. one opinion poll put public support for the strikes at 70%, with backing strongest among 18 to 3a year olds. but another poll found that 75% of people thought that pension reforms were necessary, even if only a third believed the government could deliver them. for more on what's expected to happen next with these strikes, here's hugh schofield in paris. the unions and people who have organised this protest today will be very pleased with the result. it's true there have been some clashes, some violence on the fringes of the big demo here in paris right where i am standing, an awful lot of graffiti. some damage done to property but in general a fairly festive and above all very big demonstration of force by those opposing the pension reform plans. t

might come sooner or later and right now it's a topic of discussion in france but my point is media do not have any influence at all they lost all their influence from the battlefield that is happening them on facebook mostly facebook and twitter and all those media just provided in their not weaponized the battlefield is not the media sphere it's the social media ok it's very interesting here you know but cho we have a whole string of former intelligence officials being employed particularly but not only but particularly at c.n.n. and m s n b c so i mean i'm just going to kind of theorize i think i'm allowed to do that to my program so they hire these guys like brad in our clapper mccabe and so they they have the they still get the top secret briefings you know they have clearance so they get information they tell their employer their employer then says hey joe we just heard from a source which is the source is the contributor and the contributor is on the senate reaffirming confirming what they learned from their own briefing i mean i find that insidious ok that is not in the publ

we're in brussels where the tour de france will start this year tomorrow these 13 women set off from here now they're making last minute preparations sorting out their helmets jerseys and ships. like this. just to please everybody check out anyone need to digest plus. what this isn't this is all the eagle it's all natural ingredients these a food supplement. that just. clear florrie is the one behind the dawn on designer project which roughly translates to let's get women i'm bikes she's been doing the tour de france every years since 2015 no matter the circumstances. i don't know if you they were the 1st time we did the 2 had there were just 3 of us and we didn't know if we'd budgeted enough money on the trip we stayed the family is cool to wine meals and washed out by hand every evening. and it was just on my you know it was do it yourself basically did you that was a real adventure those things a couple. things have become much more professional in recent years. that no other women have a sponsor without this financial support they'd be hardly able to pay for their bike equipment

god bless the people of france! i want to pick up on donald trump because a little earlier he suggested that perhaps flying water tankers could be used adding that people must act quickly but the french interior minister and civil service and crisis management service and crisis management service was quickly to tweet in english, not in french, that they we re english, not in french, that they were doing everything that they could to keep it under control except for water bombing aircraft because it could have collapsed the entire cathedral. pretty quick to review donald trump there. trump's predecessor barack 0bama said: notre dame is one of the world's great treasures. it's in our nature to mourn when we see history lost — but it's also in our nature to rebuild for tomorrow, as strong as we can. a statement from the vatican said: we express oui’ closeness to the french catholics and the population of paris, and assure you of our prayers for the firefighters. and officials at westminster abbey — here in the u

commerce france is the 1st major economy to impose a tax on big tech but other e.u. countries including austria britain spain and italy have also announced plans for digital taxes. joins us from the german city of constance isn't this also what trump actually wanted a tax on revenues as opposed to profits. absolutely and my president trump himself criticizing multinational enterprises that they are earning money but they don't pay taxes so this situation france has taken serious steps concerning a challenge not only appearing in europe but also in the u.s. is the right direction donald trump claims for example there is a massive trade deficit with europe when it comes to manufacturing the truth is if you look into statistics on the service side it is the u.s. who makes a lot of profits with the big 5 companies like google facebook in europe but barely these companies pay taxes in europe so it is important to solve this taxation problem the question is whether a nation specific regulation is sustainable and here cooperation is important yet why why just france why isn