Experienced an exceptionally long commute on friday Public Transportation employees are staging a mass strike paralyzing the city. Some resorted to personal calls taxis and either as creating traffic jams in and around the capital. At any changes at all i usually take a tram in the metro. He didnt consider it neither will working. So i had to take a new to me new to it took forty minutes for it to arrive. I had to share the right and it took me an hour and a half to get here instead of thirty minutes. Weve called me news. Others turn to alternativive meansns of transportation such speeches and rented bikes many for the first time. Its because of the strike ive never used this app until today itss a good solution otherwise i wouldnt be inside at school. So im glad that i can use of. But it was a struggle to even find an available bike during rush hour. I was very lucky to find one i thought id have to walk this morning. And even electric im very pleased. Todays your lucky to live close to that destination not phase one t. Even require it. I walk as always when there are strikes. Good luck to train workers. It was time for them to wake up. Despite the range of alternative choices that many people have no option but to navigate around the few working trains and buses. Uses face long wait multiple transfers and overcrowded services in paris is biggest transport strike since two thousand and seven. Reporter james andre was out on the streets of paris friday talking to tourists and residents about the strike heres what he heard. A difficult day for persian parisians who i was commuting it so well today. In the morning to a three hundred kilometers of road congestion inside pass itself and at the time im speaking while theyre in no match as they start at eight pm all lines a shot apart from line number one in line number fourteen does all the automated lines. Here in paris so they have new driver said they are indeed running metro and everything will be back to more normal at five thirty am that the people we spoke to were telling us that today they pretty much doubled the time it took to get to work a lot of them were telling us that they had to walk. A lot and the indeed one woman was telling us that she had spent a lot of time on the bus an hour and fifteen minutes to get here at the station from what is not a very Long Distance here in paris and she was saying is that the atmosphere. On board was actually quite fun though the bus was completely packed. War seeing whats a peoples also telling us is that they understand why. The agent the r. A. T. P. Which is this organization that runs public transport here. In paris well on strike. They said they understood and a large parts of them ashley said they were backing the movement and they understood. Why people westrac in a one woman did tell us. That she thought it was unfair and she felt that that was the wrong people being punished you said what you see. With us that we cant get to work. And in fact the politicians well theyre still using. That official vehicles to get from a to b. And then not affected by this strike in any case. This is probably the beginning of a series of strikes. The government is dead set on his position it wants to reform. The pension systems and as for the r. I. T. B. Agents. Well they want to keep that Pension Scheme as it is. And staying in france the founder of frances far right National Front party joe marie le pen. W was put undr formal investigation friday for embebezzlement of public funds. This over allegations he illegally claim the money from the European Parliament okay partyy staff based in france. Is estimated nearly seven Million Euros was diverteted between two thousand nine and twenty seventeen. Ninety one year old append it wass a European Parliament member from the nineteen eighties up until this year. But its parliamentary immunity ended in march allowing for an investigation to be opened. His estranged daughter marine who now heads the renamed national rally. Has already been put under formal investigation in the case. A french political power couple was handed jail terms on friday for hiding millions of euros from tax authorities right winger patrick a balcony it dominated politics in a wealthy suburb of paris for decades. He was sentenced to four years in prison and he immediately arrested. His wife and longtime deputy isabel was given three years but not placed under arrest. The couple was charged with hiding to luxury villas among other assets heres what patrick balconies lawyer had to say about the sentence. To give muscle group what shocks me the most the mold is obviously the detention warrant is your own which is a totally unnecessary and marable humiliation for us. So no one can seriously say that mister balcony trying to escape he was p present at all the proceedings was only two days after the posted you. And other top stories on the continent torrential rains and flooding in southeastern spain iim now killed a at leastst fr people all the victims died in vehicles that became submerged in water and mud. Rescue workers saved thousands more from rising waters around kanada and palencia on friday the record rainfall closed down to Regional Airports as well as trains roads and schools. And acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says the militarys. Emergency unit has been deployed. Former turkish Prime Minister ahmet w. Two blue has announced hes leaving the ruling justice and Development Party and hell be starting his own movement. To move to lou called it quits after the party decided to send him to a Disciplinary Board. Trago on this the latest challenge to present reserve type adam on. Its a resignation that sent shock three turkish politics the man who once headed the ruling justice and Development Party of former Prime Minister. Is leaving its ranks we get a shot at hey these developments have shown us it is no longer possible to defend the basic principles that we have supported throughout our career in the akp. Under the current administration. Centers any criticism or device as a betrayal or act of hostility and those developmements included decision to re run a local voted istanbul earlier this year the president recep tayyip better ones i k. Party lost out to the on position. Its close to be run by an even larger margin. However a recentt decision to send them a devil totally to the a. K. Partys Disciplinary Board seems to be what sparked his departure. Relations between the former Prime Minister and that i wanted salad forcing devitto lou annals of the Party Chairmanship in twenty sixteen. And theyve been persistent rumors he told his own political rival to the akp something hes now confirmed. Devitto lewis far from the only person to fall out with turkeys top political beast amid an ongoing crackdown on that ones opponents three years after a failed coup against him. That the number of departures in recent months including former economy minister Ali Baba Karen he ststated this week hee launched. His own Political Party by the end of the year. Armed with lanterns mobile phones and flashlights protesters in hong kong took to the hills above the city kick off their latest weekend of rallies. Theyre the activists formed illuminated human chain growing inspiration from fridays mid autumn festival during which children when colorful lanterns. The event followed offers of concessions from hong kongs leader carrie lam. She said in a Facebook Post thursday should address concerns over jobs in sky high rent. Right it was the last day for tunisia is twenty six president ial candidates too make their case to voters on sunday at the nation will hold its second free president ial election following the twenty eleven arab spring uprising. And as a voting day approaches uncertainty is growing over who will reach the next round can its included the incumbent Prime Minister a media tycoon currently in jail and the first openly gay man to run for leadership of an arab state. But no one seems to have a clear upper hand joining us now to further discuss the big issues for voters in the selection i is William Lawrence hes a professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington university and dc thanks so much for being with us this evening. Now in tunisia is first to post revolution election the political fault lines were pretty clear it was islamists against moderate. Modernist excuse me why now are we seeing so many differenent candndidates and progrgrams beig puput forth. Well the fragmentation of the political scene was a natural outgrowth of the way they designed the political system and i generalize frustration with the big political parties. Most of the candidates are running as independents and the population and early elections in two thousand eleven thousand fourteen were very much concerned with. You know what kind of system would emerge from what they consider the revolution but now most people havent felt revolutionary dividends theyre very concerned about the Economic Situation is a lot of. Socioeconomic stress the same way there was at the time of the revolution and people want more from their governments and if you lookk at the latest polling that data to nations are great im happy with. The results of the revolution what the government is giving up two thirds of gigi say they get nothing from the government. So you mentioned Socio Economic stress what are some of the other big issues on the minds of. Voters as they head to the ballot box on sunday. Well certainly there are bunches values issues that have been very much discussed there was the issue of homosexuality and whether that was. Going to be allowed in tunisia you know in the in the legal system and what status. Lgbt would have theres the issue of a variety of womens issues the most are. An explosive one or interesting one its been the it hardens issue or a legal project introduced by the former president s are that created a lot of. Older rise debating society arm if you look at the three nights of president ial debates a lot of the discussion was about security. Thats because the president ial functions are mostly limited to security in Foreign Affairs whereas its the Prime Minister that has. Most of the you know that the power over thehe economy. But its interesting even though thats the case people want. A president who is able to deliver economically as well. So theres one woman running among these candidates as well as an openly gay man but i want to talk about one of the heavy weight can its in particular no bill can i really hes the media magnet. Was arrested on charges of Money Laundering just three weeks before the election hes also the nemesis of the Prime Minister who is also running in this electction. Is s not as buy as it sounds. Its fishy all around. Already just candidates. Had some issues of corruption this is an old case it was sort of resuscitated up in time for the election and thatt is meant that army was leading in n the polls and as actualllly gained while in jail. As theres a bit of a sympathy vote arm hes popular as a populist politician who often shows himself on his own television channel. Handing out at eighthty two g. G. Or tunisian people sort of symbolic of denniss academic issues we were just discussing. A lot of tunisians feel that he shouldnt have been arrested right before the election and thats one of the reasons. Is being permitted to run. But heads. You know the character the other person to can. You talk about whos involved in this. As a result i think he suffered in the polls i need to increase the chance that the candidates to be the former defense minister. Is increasingly being is sort of built by the establishment as the candidate they wanted and knowing just the next leader to carry on. The tradition of the deceased president said see. Now as with most countries theres quite a bit of a divide in tunisia between. What we what the big issues are for citizens who live in cities and those who live in rural areas in the countryside. Can you just explain a little bit how that divide plays out in tunisia. Sure well thats how the revolution began to begin a remote areas if you look at the voting. Im a big parties tend to do well im on the coastal areas and you have more unpredictable votes in the rural areas you had a lot of. Your daily protests particularly in the west in the south tunisia has over ten thousand protest of the year many of them small but it shows a certain level of dissatisfied. And your legs because theress a big divide like in a lot of the north african states between the coast is doing very well with investment and tourism and interior regions that are very poor. And that has only increased. Economic growth in fact one of the reasons the arab spring was provoked on the way what is economically was not that you knew she was doing horribly economically but that that happens were doing a lot better than has not. And i continues. To animate politics these days very much. William lawrence from George Washington University Thanks so much for helping us understand that this jam packed race. Right click. Next american Actress Felicity Huffman has become the first parents sentenced in the wide ranging u. S. College admissions cheating scandal she was given a fourteen day prison term on friday after pleading guilty to paying to read her daughters Entrance Exam the former star of the tv series desperate housewives apologize for her actions. For being sentenced. U. S. Democratic president ial candidates squared off for the third time wednesday night the field was cut in half for this latest debate down to only t the ten highest polling candidates. But former Vice President joe biden was once again front and center anand on the e receiving end of mostst a attacks from bennett wh the biggest moments. It was healthcare which dominated the third democratic debate. The top three candidates former Vice President joe biden followed by rivals the senator Elizabeth Warren and senator Bernie Sanders will sharing a stage for the first time and biden in particular attack after attack from fellow democrats throughout the night. Elizabeteth warren and Bernie Sanders both by medicare for old which would expand the current federally run program to cover all americans estimated to cost t thirty y two trillion dollars or more over a decade but clayton accuse them of touting a plan of this too expensive to work. M my plan for Health Care Costs a lot of money it costs seven hundred twelve forty billion dollars it doesnt cost thirty trillion dollars gun conontrol is a topic thats the candidates boldly agree on things but it was also a chance to o shine if a texanno role was the only candidate to advocate demanded tree buybacks of assault weapons a proposal that straw polls from the audiencece. Hell yes were gonna take our fifteen your a. K. Forty. One of the most unexpected moments of the night was when Julian Castro called out to joe biden the contradicting himself in a question on healthcare. It was an embarrassing moment the blade in as the first time someone had made reference to the seventy six year old candidates age are you are you forgetting what t you. For two minutes ago. Well this debate was fiery a than previous head to heads there was one thing all candidates could agree on and that was l. Sting donald trump from the white house. Now its time for the days Business News and for that im joined here on sept Michael Spangler hello there. And youre starting with our top story of the day here in france that massive paris transport strike during a friday search actually part of a much larger battle is taking place. Transamericas oppose the governments proposed Pension Reforms which are set to be introduced next spring. Minor changes they would bring an end to dozens of so called special Retirement Systems that could mean reduce benefits for Public Transit empmployees. Also for other groups of workers as well. Rush has the story. There is paralyzed by the biggest public transport strikee in mome than a decade. Ten out of sixteen metro lines closed with severely disrupted traffic on other r train bubus and trtram. Paris transit operator ratp estimates the day of f strike acaction a against retirement reforms will l cost it someme te million euro. Strike has been unpopular with some commuters but it enjoys broad support amongst pubublic transit workers with up 298 of our a. T. P. Employees on strike in certain sectors according to union representatives. Were here to show that we are happy to say that on Pension Scheme is important to us. Will stand up for ourselves and we are ready for the fight. Under frances complex pension systems some Civil Servants including Public Transit workers have special retirement plans. They can retire earlier. As compensation for difficult working conditions such as overnight shifts and operating heavy machinery. The average retirement age r. A. T. P. Is fifty five point seven. Far below the National Average of sixty three. But the days of early retirements may be coming to an end. As the government plans to unify francis forty two Pension Schemes into a single points based system. I dont know but you you were going to build a truly universal system where one you will pay a total retirement gives everyone the same rights. Whether the laborers tradesmen researchers farmers Public Servants doctors entrepreneurs. The government is set to consult with unions before introducing the bill which it hopes will be voted on in parliament next year. More labor backed protests are already planned for later this month. Eurozone finance ministers are in helsinki friday and sataturday holding infoformal talks as fears m mout over a slowdown in the european economy a day after the European Central bank warned it was running out of tools to avoid a recession. In helsinki french finance minister bring along their repeated his call for a so called growth contacts the plan would include reforms aimed at boosting competition and Debt Reduction but also cause an increase investment from countries that have the quote fiscal space to do so. The subtle but clear nudging the direction of germany europes largest economy and when that is historically resisted calls to boost public spending take less number of america. There is a lack of growth. In the European Union and there was a lack of rules we see intnto your soul. We should not to be s satisfied wih the neighbor of rules in the u. Was or which shes i think. A difficulty for Oil Companies and the difficulty for all citizens are asking. For more prosperity and more jobs. Turning now to fridays trading action markets got a boost after china said it was planning to exclude American Farm goods including soy beans from its ongoing terrorist. That helped lift the dow jones up over a tenth of 1 as you can see. Coming up right there losses though on the tech heavy nasdaq and a hundred by two point 6 drop for apple. Company size share price target lowered by goldman sachs. The major european indices side gains earlilier on friday the dx finishing the day up nearly half of 1 account about the fifty one percent. As the European Central bank restarted its money printing programme known as quantitative easing. That is my concern other slowdodown with growth in n the eurozone as accidents fastest pace in a decade. According to new data from the e east to test x. Agency. Growth at two point 7 last quarter the fastest rate since two thousand nine. Led by the countries of Eastern Europe and by germany which has a wage growth just over the years on average. Course the overalall picture not so rosy annual economic expansion. Of the just a 51 this past quarter. And finally another new prequel to the worlds most expensive tv series in the works. Game of thrones wrapped up earlier this year after final season that cost an average of fifteen Million Dollars per episode. Is already once in office being prepared by hbo now theres another one according to reports. Apparently set to be ordered soon as a pilot. Will focus on the l legendary tar garion family. I dont know if youre french early but i dont think theyll be any shortage surgeons spectators that that last. Season getting record numbers of years in in United States millions millions just in us one i thihink im one of ten people on the planet who doesnt watch h that show bubutm realally happy for everyry. Cool staying alert with the Business News of the day thank you so much. And were going to cross the desk now its you Nick Rushworth hes bringing us. Media watch a look at whats buzzing online and in traditional media. And youve been checking out the reactions to the major metro strike here in paris its been a big horrible nasty day for commuters in paris hasnt it with. What people trying to get to work as bestst they can walking taking taking the. Whatever this is the police you know who showed me on false one of the main papers and is. This headline this thing thirty million minutes is what they recommend is the number of minutes lost of for commuters this this friday in paris. Just the one point four million of them just to get to work knowns. Should the bulls though its not about the lives of the committees this as such but i see the plan. As we could now say over the french government spokeswoman c. Bets in the eye who. Made it gas on french tv she w was speaking. To b. Fm one of t the main channenels here ad said. C call will be with commuters as they struggle in the corridors of the paris metro. And then she mentioned that actually ill be in my own government call. Making my way to work oops and of course le figaro and jumping on that saying yes full see that and they are the Government Spokesperson. Its just another working day. But for the rest of us. Not the best look. But of course if theres anything to gripe about you can always count on people taking to twitter when it is. Because the re workings of that had to hear a sarcastic comment cbs. What about the call share arrangement we have do you want to pick me up at the full though the only y you know which one of the difficult edges of the city to get to and from. Here another one saying ive just seen see beth and they i the Government Spokesperson just popping out to get some bread. Of course about supplies. Kim jong. Buttons car. Body. Of course this is that theres a very very much a serious side to this because that the one of the unions the c. G. C. Representing the paris metro workers saying. We will mobilize this is just the beginning of the stars of a season of strikes against a president michaels. Plans to reform the retirement system as weve been hearing you once a standardized approach not forty two different regimes so. The metro drive is. Knock off work at the end of that career fifty five but in the private sector most workers a are leaving. That jobs at sixty three so discrepancies duralens heris residents because theres probably much more of this coming. Hi nick another story youve been looking at is the continuation of the protests in hong kong as well. Yes its the middle some festival now in hong kong this friday with people giving out mooncakes among them carrie lam the chief executive that we can see one tweets of her. Popping out just to see people in a retirement home and give them some main cakes that you can see. Inside but then outside what do we have we have a Significant Police presence for her. So that im going tension. Reflected actually in the gift. Of moon cakes the free. Yes the Hong Kong Free press saying that some of them have the would be water on them. The water is a reference to the philosophy of bruce lee the kung fu. Film star who is obviously from hong kong and his whole philosophy in life was to say. Be fluid dont go where your enemy expect you to go so dodge dodge the hits and thats become a slogan for hong kong. So the end of the day the mood very much trying to find resistance in when it whatever way possible. There you can see them more closely i want to go to the guardian here which is saying that protest is in sight china in it. For example in Hunan Province of a finding of bad difficult to get beyond the great firewall of china. When they set up we chat groups they quote chan seeming a saying that hes his is chock group to try and express support t to fol people in hong kong. As being a knockdown of twenty times so it was an indication of just how much the mainland is putting pressure 09 13 19 09 13 19 [captioning made possible by democracy now ] amy from new york, this is democracy now mother 15yearold girl was shot by an ar 15. That mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people work shot by that ar 15 there were not enough ambulances to get to them in time. Hell, yes, were going to take your ar 15, ak47
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