The leader of the National Front threatens to sue reporters that suggests that the anti Immigration Party is anything the mainstream. Anything but mainstream. We will also have our media watch segment. The hour begins in the newsroom. Hello again. Main headlines this hour. It recommends stripping berlusconi of his seat following convictions of tax fraud. The former premier maintains he is a victim of open data. Victim o f f a vendetta. Pope francis marks the day of warning after the shipwreck that killed 100 people. Authorities are calling on me eu to rethink its immigration policy. Getting their voices heard. 60 Syrian Refugees staged a sit in. For the right to seek asylum in france. They remain determined to move on to the destination of choice britain. Before we develop those headlines, lets go to the developing situation in egypt here at medical sources say that at least one person has died from a gunshot wound near central cairo. The victim is reported to be a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Clashes broke out in the capital this friday, as brotherhood supporters are defying a security crackdown. We spoke to a journalist. It appears to be ongoing. It was basically it started with a number of Muslim Brotherhood protests that attempted to converge on Tahrir Square, and they were prevented from reaching Tahrir Square. It turned violent. We have reports of one person killed. We are an hour away from the start of curfew. Based on previous behavior, i think it is safe to say that any brotherhood supporters that are out on the streets in another hour will be dealt with more harshly because they will be violating the curfew. Is this a sign authorities are struggling to contain what is left of the promorsi movement . It is part of the backand forth chess match between the two sides. The brotherhood has reduced the number of protest, but they are picking their spots and making their presence felt. They are moving to a hitandrun model of popping up in unexpected places. But what is really going to be happening is that this weekend is going to be an extended showdown between the two sides. It is a holiday weekend. Sunday is a National Holiday celebrating the 1973 war against israel. It is militaryoriented. The brotherhood have artie announced t the brotherhood have announced that they will have rolling demonstrations. To italy where after a series of scandals, berlusconi looks like he may finally have to pay the political price. His conviction for tax fraud, and the senate recommended that the former premier be stripped of his duties. A vote is set to take lies within the next 20 days. Could it really be the end of the road for berlusconi . Take a listen. After what can only be described as a devastating week where he seriously underestimated the split within his own party when he tried to bring down the labor government. Today the senate voted to throw him out of the senate as a result of his tax fraud conviction which was upheld by the Supreme Court in august. Now, he was expecting this. He does not have the numbers on the committee. Nevertheless, this is a blow for the former Prime Minister who has dominated italian politics for 20 years. Italian commentators this week work hauling the end of were calling this the end of his career. Staying in italy 111 bodies have been recovered from the waters. Rescue teams are continuing their search for more than 200 people still unaccounted for after thursday shipwreck. Coast guard had another busy day on friday with hundreds of shipwrecked migrants still unaccounted for, divers plunged to the seafloor, searching the wreck of the vessel. We will continue all day and all night until we are able to bury these bodies. Back on land, hearses rolled o ut of the port. Those who survived recounted their experiences to officials on site. They said they were shaken up. That all they are looking for is a better life. All day thursday and into the night, workers scoured the waters off to the coast, exhausted after hours stranded at sea, those still alive had barely enough strength to pull themselves aboard. The residents joined the rescue efforts and local fishermen sailed out to those clinging onto pieces of wreckage. Many locals are angry about the numbers of migrants arriving and fatal accidents have become too frequent. It cannot continue like before. Otherwise, there will be other bodies again in the future. In rome, the senators joined italians across the country observing a minute of silence. Outside, flags at half mast in what the pope dubbed a day of tears. It is a start. 60 Syrian Refugees have been granted the right to seek asylum in france. This actors aging is sitting a sit in calasi. Is. All the group is hoping for is to cross over to britain. The member from britains Border Police have been sent to calais. We have more. Syrian refugees far from home with no solution in sight. Some have been in the port town for weeks. Those less fortunate for months. This Group Includes women and children. They are seeking asylum in the u. K. Complaints of being treated like animals remain unanswered some 20 of them are on hunger strikes. And these two once threatened to jump off the roof if their demands are not met. The procedures are faster than here, and some of us have relatives there. And for me personally, i am sticking en speaking english. The regions prefecture offered the syrians the right to asylum in france. There is no concrete place for them to be proposed by the authorities. They are fed up with the way they are treated by the french authorities. A want to try to reach england because they think they would be more well treated and they would have a chance to get asylum. According to the u. N. , 17 countries including france have agreed to receive refugees fleeing the civil war. With france pledging to fast track the applications, the question remains will these syrians finally find a place they can call home . In other news, street violence and kenya has left four people dead this friday. They linked police for the killing of a muslim cleric on thursday. Security denied the death was a reprisal for the september 21 attack on the mall that killed more than 60 people. An attack claimed by el shabab. The u. S. Has issued a travel warning and their warning about revenge violence against somalis. As more controversy in the lead up to the 2022 world cup in qatar. Fifa is announced that it is launching a process to decide whether to move away from the traditional junejuly slot to spare the fans the heat. There are growing allegations that the mostly Migrant Workers employed to build the stadiums are being exploited and forced to work in conditions that amount to slavery. On that point, the fifa president says he cannot interfere and cannot ignore the claims, either. With that, we are leaving this addition. It is time to hand you back to francios picard for the world this week. Francois picard. It is time for the world this week. Four correspondence. How are you . Very well. We welcome the correspondent for the italian public broadcasting. Thank you for being with us. Craig, the atlantic. And the former france deux senior correspondence. Angie for joining us. The world this week thank you for joining us. Our hashtag twtw. The clock continues to tick on that standoff in washington. Since tuesday, u. S. Federal government has shut down nonessential services, not completely, but 800,000 federal employees laid off, another 1. 4 million working without pay. If the shutdown persists beyond october 17 when congress has to raise the debt ceiling, well, then it becomes the whole world problem, with the u. S. Running the risk of defaulting on debt. Friday morning there was hope with the New York Times and Washington Post reporting that john boehner might blink first a nd cross the aisle. However, republican lawmakers have since come out of the meeting with him flatly denying it all. Wherein lies the truth . Well, ok, i will go out on a limb and say the u. S. Will not default on its debt, that the debt ceiling will be raised, as it has 47 times in the past, and that at the end of the day the republicans will blink. John boehner does not want this on his sheet. What is extraordinary about this to the observer is how far these republican extremists are willing to go, just to bring the spotlight on them and to supposedly prove to the people who sent him to washington that they are there to do with they were elected to do, which is to stop obamacare, which is what they are doing. They are holding the budget and they are holding the debt ceiling hostage to try and get this law defunded. When he woke up tuesday morning, the whole world is ending, this is terrible. The first time in 17 years. The markets closed this friday are going to close slightly up. It seems as though wall street does not seem that worried. They are worried more about the debt ceiling not being raised on the 17. They are concerned about that. As time goes on and we get closer to october 17, if there is still this great gap between these two sides of the house and the senate, they will be very concerned. I think you will see what a bit of volatility. For right now it seems like a very remote possibility. So nobody is registering it. People are not putting their money on the side of the catastrophe. If the u. S. Does default, it is a catastrophe. Should wall street worried . If you are a stock trader, no. It is bonds that will get slammed. People are making easy money because of what is known as quantitative easing. What that means is the United States government keeps the Printing Presses running and they keep pumping money into the economy. That money goes into the stock market. When you get into the realm of debt, you are talking bonds. Similar problem in italy. Bond prices. That is the real problem. The republicans and the democrats are both acting like petulant little children. They are both manipulating themselves for the 2014 elections. They put the good faith and credit of the United States in crisis. That is one thing the United States does not need right now. Both acting like petulant children. You agree . I think they have something in common with in europe and america in this moment. Populism against responsibility. I see the tea party wants just to be in the front page. The same in italy. Our populist movement wants to be on the front page no matter what. So i think we will make an appeal to the people of good faith and good responsibility to save us from the catastrophe. You were joking at the beginning of the week that we had seen this movie before 17 years ago. Is it different, the sequel . This time it is more serious because of the crisis and because of the lack of faith in the american institutions, which might be more durable and may go beyond the deadline of 17 of october. Markets may still react. From the point of view of a european, its so incredible that a small, ideological grouping borne out of the a democratic function of a primary election in the United States might hold saway over the grand old party. And that in consequence reach as far as asia where president obama will not be able to attend a meeting in the region that is considered pivotal in terms of security and trade, pivotal for american diplomacy. This is incredible. The crux of this problem goes to obamacare, universal health care in the United States, which we all here as european citizens are blessed with. And it works. This is what started this. And in the yelling and screaming cacophony, there has only been one voice that made any sense. It was the last adult we had in the white house, president bill clinton. He said that the only way obamacare is going to work is if young people singn up. Lets get back to that point. That is an important aspect. On twitter, we have a reaction about the screening you referred to. Enough with the shutdown, already. Get back to work like the rest of us. One man who must be feeling it more than most is the top ranking republican on capitol hill. John boehner has had to dig in his heels. We sent four proposals to the senate. They rejected all of them. We have asked for a conference, to sit down and resolve our differences. They do not want to, they will not negotiate. On the other side of the aisle, the president has turned up the volume with daily attacks , some directly aimed at john boehner. The only thing that is keeping the government shutdown, the only thing preventing people from going back to work and basic Research Starting back up and farmers and smallbusiness owners getting their loans, the only thing that is preventing all that from happening right now, today, in the next five minutes, is that Speaker John Boehner wont even let the bill get a yes or no vote, because he does not want to anger the extremist in his party. The prologue to this story is last weeks 21 hours tirade by the junior senator from texas, republican ted cruz, who is pondering a run for president , getting attention with a filibuster against obamacare that included bedtime stories for his daughter watching at home. However, will there be a boomerang effect for the president . Is he so sure it will be the same outcome as in 1996 when like the one who was trying to get things done and got easily reelected . I think there is a good chance this will boomerang. If not, help obama who has a lot more hurdles to get over before he is loved again, it is definitely having an effect on the republican. If i were somebody like john boehner or a moderate republican, i would be very concerned about the fact that these extremists in the party are the ones who are putting the party in jeopardy. Even donors are beginning to say, i cannot give money. You are too shambolic and two crazy. This is not why we sent you to washington. I feel pretty strongly that this is not going to come to a default. And we have midterm elections coming up. You can see a huge, huge boomerang effect once congress has to get reelected. At the same time, we are hearing that eventually if john boehner does cut a deal with moderate republicans crossing the aisle, that he will be out of his job. I think the problem goes much deeper. We talked a lot on this program, we have written stories about the socalled virtual universe, people spending their lives on the computer, having virtual lives. There is a virtual civil war and the United States right now, make no mistake. Its being played out on twitter and facebook and all of these different highly politicized television networks. And the fear is is at some point this will spill over. May i point out briefly that this recent event where a woman who was mentally disturbed try to ram into the white house and then went to capitol hill and was killed in the accident or was shot, there were congressman who stood up and tv anchors who said that this was related to the shutdown. So this virtual war that is going on is starting to spill over. You were saying you did two stins ts in the u. S. And the second time around, what was the difference in tone . I was impressed by the tone of president obama and with john boehner. With john boehner, there has always been a good relationship. And john boehner always tried to come across and find a solution. But dont believe the tea party is rational. It is heavily financed by big bosses. These people have to put their money where their mouth is, and stop funding these crazy hooligans. Is politics changing forever in the United States . Im not sure, but let me say the United States used to be and say, europe does not have the telephone number. Today, who knows the telephone number of congressman seuss the start of the lockdown coinciding with day one of the sign up for one in seven americans who have no health care coverage. State by state Health Insurance exchanges whose websites have been swamped since tuesday. Too early to say if the plan will be a success. It is hard to be really excited about it today. On a personal level, i will save a few dollars. I would almost pay those dollars to get the Government Back running. Americans are really not very good at sacrificing for the greater good. I do not mean this lady. She is uninsured. She is signing up for insurance which she will be able to get under the plan. What americans have not been great at is socialism with a small s. They have never been terrific at saying, ok, i am doing pretty well. My tax rate is a little higher than my neighbors who is not doing so well. But i am paying into a pot that will ensure that all around me people will do better. In the long run, that is better for me because there might be less crime. There is going to be a more educated population. Everyone will regard retirement not as a ticket to the poor house but as a comfortable and to a working life. And so on down the road. Americans are really bad at playing along came. Annes right. If it is even possible to put aside the rhetoric, this vicious rhetoric going on, obamacare is seriously flawed. It was seriously flawweed from inception. Obama has gone and 17 times to change it around to benefit certain individuals, like the u. S. Congress. Now, the republicans have used this as a cudgel. Lets put that aside. They went into this too quick. The United States came to global, universal health care too late in the game. As i have written and said before, health care in europe, which we benefit from, was something that was forged by oath the left and the right. That is not what is going on in the United States. Until that discussion can be had, i do not think obama care is going to work, because clintons big worry is as i mentioned before is that there will not be enough young people singingning up because they do t have the money. The number of young people that sign up is the indicator we will watch. A final point, another casualty of the shutdown Barack Obamas trip to the asean summit and a tour of malaysia. Chinas president in a cartoon on this weeks oped pages of the International Herald tribune. 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