And seeking a worldwide response , the World Health Organization has declared ebola to be a Public Health emergency of International Concern as west africa continues to struggle to contain the virus. Israel has launched airstrikes across the gaza strip this friday after Palestinian Militants recommenced eyring rockets. It came after egyptian mediated talks failed to extend a 72our troops. Hamas earlier rejected any extension of the truce, saying israel had failed to meet its demands. Israel says it will not negotiate under fire. Lets get the latest now. Its hard to imagine how the beleaguered people of gaza can take much more. What have fridays developments meant for them . Indeed, it has been a tough day for people in gaza. Fighting has recommenced first thing in the morning. Gazans who were enjoying three days of her pre, going up to shops and cafes and getting some sense of normalcy thats all over for them today. The streets are empty. The beaches are empty. The fishermen are not out. They can have taken refuge and our hunkering down or what looks to be a long and grueling campaign. It seems very clear they will continue launching these rockets until their key demand is met. Indeed, this has become a war about the blockade. For gazans along with thomas they are not willing to leave this war without an and to the blockade for gazans along with thomas hamas. Israel is trying to avoid any issue of limiting the blockade and trying to restore the quiet for quiet situation it has had before this war. Thank you very much for bringing us all the latest there from gaza. U. S. Warplanes have bombed radical islamist fighters marching on iraqs kurdish capital, the first combat actions by American Forces since 2011. President barack obama had vowed to prevent genocide following weeks of killing by isis militants who have taken control of swabs of terrain. The pentagon said two fighter jets dropped laserguided bombs on artillery used by isis to shell kurdish forces. The white house says there is no specific and date for the operations. It will depend on the security situation. The first u. S. Bombing raids in iraq since 2011 the pair of warplanes taking off from a u. S. Aircraft carrier in the persian gulf, hitting isis targets just outside the kurdish capital. The pentagon saying its aircraft had struck islamist militants who had attacked kurdish forces. Airstrikes coincide with humanitarian aid drops. Both operations authorized by barack obama on thursday as he warned of a looming genocide. We thank barack obama again for his decision to give military support to the kurdish fighters. It also ensures that kurdistan is a place for religious minorities. This should have been done earlier. The area has seen an influx of refugees. In recent days iraqs biggest christian town, the latest to fall under islamist control. We are happy about the airstrikes. We want our home back. But our government needs to find a proper solution for us. The u. S. Intervention comes to the months after isis first siege houston swathes huge swathes of northern iraq. Their hiring christians and other minorities. Obama says he will attack isis now. Why did he not do that from the beginning . U. S. Troops pulled out of iraq didnt years ago after almost a decade of war, a decision barack obama has long defended. Even as he okayed the latest intervention, the u. S. President has promised he will not allow the American Army to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. We are joined by a Senior Adviser at the state department during who is currently president of the hamilton foundation. Isis isil, Islamic State whatever you want to call them will and strength alone be enough to stop them . I dont think so. What is lacking in any of this is a real strategy for where we the west, want to go in iraq. This is a very well developed, wellorganized army. It came out of syria and has taken advantage of the situation and alienation and iraq and a couple of bombs wilmot do anything. Its very reminiscent of nature when it went into libya, doing so on humanitarian reasons and not for a clear strategy. Is your argument than that a rock obama has been spurred into action by growing pressure . In a way. Its very odd what compelled him to commit military force. Again, to use the libya example it was not because it was an opportunity to advance freedom for the interest of the west and nato. It was because of a looming humanitarian catastrophe at that time in the rebel enclaves, and now, its because as he set himself last night because of looming genocide or humanitarian disasters. The problem again is that there is a much broader issue here with the division of iraq and the emergence of three protostates, one of which dropping a few bombs is not going to change that. It is very ephemeral, based on a humanitarian standard. It is not traditional strategy based on the National Interest of the u. S. Or nato or the west. Its very hard to clear who we want to win, who we want to lose, what comes after this military operation none of that seems to have been answered at least not yet by the president. The u. S. Protected the kurds for a decade with a nofly zone after the first gulf war. After Saddam Hussein fell in 2003 the kurds wanted america to set up a Permanent Base in their territory, but that never happened. Did these decisions under the bush years play their part in allowing the disaster to occur . Violence had declined radically from Something Like 3500 deaths a month down the 500 and Coalition Military casualties. The odd thing about the action today with the kurds is we are essentially bombing the kurds enemy on their behalf, and certainly, that enemy deserves to be bombed, i believe but there are other things we could be doing to help the kurds, like allowing or at least not discouraging other countries from consuming kurdish oil. Kurdistan is exporting oil through a pipeline. It would allow them to build up a buffer between jihadists and the west. This is a case of a president who said he was against war and military action is using military action but not using tools readily available and perhaps more effective. In hindsight a military base in kurdistan currently would be a huge asset, wouldnt it . Certainly if your goal is military operations. These airstrikes came from an aircraft carrier. It would probably be handier to have a base there, but president obama made the decision, so even if there was a base from previous times president obama made the decision to withdraw from iraq in 2010. Thank you very much for joining us here on france 24. The World Health Organization has declared ebola to be a Public Health emergency of International Concern. The latest outbreak of the deadly disease has claimed over 930 and drives 930 lives in west africa. The who says weak Health Care Systems and poor Public Knowledge about ebola were helping it to spread. Ebola is now an official international Public Health emergency, and the World Health Organization has called for an International Response to the deadly disease. I am declaring the current outbreak of ebola virus disease and International Concern. Countries affected today simply do not have the capacity to manage an outbreak of this size and complexity on their own. At no time in the 40 years since ebola was identified in humans have so many people been affected on such a large scale. The who believes the latest outbreak emerged in guinea around six months ago. Since then, over 900 people have died. Most of them in guinea liberia and sierra leone and recently in nigeria, too. The governments of liberia and sierra leone have declared states of emergency and placed a handful of towns under quarantine while soldiers control travel in affected areas. The liberian president has warned Civil Liberties may be suspended to bring the virus under control. Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with body fluids. Doctors say affected patients should be kept in isolation for 30 days. Some recent experimental treatments have worked well, but theres no vaccine or widely available cure for ebola. To south africa, where the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has wrapped up wallowing a final day of oration. Following on from the prosecutions Closing Remarks on friday, the star sprinters defense team delivered its concluding argument. It is up to the judge with a verdict expected to be delivered in september. The athlete could face to give five years in prison if found guilty of murdering his girlfriend. Back at court. This time, the defense teams concluding arguments. Oscar pistorius lawyer delivers Closing Remarks seeking to portray a vulnerable individual. You experience daily that disability and the effect of it. You feel vulnerable. You do not go to bed and cannot sleep, lie awake, but the moment you confront it it comes to before. The defense team accused prosecutors of twisting the facts and of ignoring evidence that did not support its case. The lastditch attempt to save the 27yearold star sprinter from a lengthy prison sentence comes a day after the prosecution gave its closing statement. The doubleamputee known as blade runner told the court a snowball of lies according to the prosecution. He denied that he deliberately shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on valentines day last year. The judge presiding over the case will have over 4000 ages of evidence to review before handing down her final verdict. In paris, it may be the height of the summer, but it is turning into a wet one. Rain and thunderstorms have persisted, spoiling the vacations of many tourists to the city. Some visitors, seeing the sights out from an umbrella was not how they envisioned their trip. Gray skies and pesky showers that will not go away. Paris seen from underneath an umbrella is not what this family had in mind. For this couple in frances west coast, their photos are not turning out quite how they had hoped. They are not very colorful because theres no sunshine. But never mind. Life is beautiful. For those raincoat clad tourists, paris under the rain is still paris. Its beautiful out here. Even with the rain . A little bit of disappointment for me. Meanwhile cafe terraces have indeed is the raindrops. You would be forgiven for thinking ottomans already here. We are serving more tea and hot chocolate, but its not really a problem. Fewer tourists and only a handful of people, but the drizzle showed no sign of letting up. Forecasters say the sun will come out next week. Not even the dreary weather can rain on their parade. A reminder of our headlines keeping his promise. U. S. Fighter pilots have bombed the position of crisis militants in iraq on the instructions of barack obama. The white house says the operation has no specific end date as tens of thousands flee the muslim extremists. Shelling and rockets resume with the truce over hamas fired with missiles. Palestinian Officials Say a 10yearold boy was the first to die on friday. And seeking a worldwide response the World Health Organization has declared ebola to be a Public Health emergency of International Concern as west africa continues to struggle to contain the virus. Thats all your world news for the moment, but theres plenty more to come. Stay with us. Welcome back. Now its time for media watch on france 24. You are going to start us off with vice. Com. The site has put up a documentary about isis, which gives viewers an up close and personal time spent with the militants. Tell us more. One of their reporters spent three weeks in the selfproclaimed capital of isis in syria if i could find the name of the city, that would be helpful. In any case, he managed to get extraordinary footage showing how very well organized it is. Some terrifying footage, as well, showing soldiers who had remained faithful to Bashar Alassad with their heads cut off and publicly displayed. Some pretty terrifying stuff. I just spoke to business insider. Com, and they had taken a couple of screenshots from the documentary to give you a sense of the quotes coming out of it. This really has become the soundbite from what is a fivepart documentary, and this the first part put up online now we will raise the flag of a la in the white house the flag of allah in the white house. Further scenes going up through screen grabs. You can see there in reference to syrian or Bashar Alassad postured assads troops. This was another one of the more controversial moments in the first part of this fivepart documentary. You can see that he is quite a young child. Interestingly, isis, known for being very active on social media, using it as a propaganda tool, responded to the documentary and made specific reference to that young boy. They said that at the time of the prophet, the legal age for jihad was 15, but they would be happy to trade up his children even at a younger age. If they were attempting to appear a bit more moderate or temper the content of that documentary, im not sure that was a massively successful pr moment. It is interesting to point out that vice. Com has a reputation for getting inside scoops or very difficult to obtain images. For example, this document that would up a couple of years ago, inside north korea, which had notoriously rare footage of life inside north korea. Interesting. Moving onto Something Different the former french president has been in the swedish press. Because his illegitimate son has decided to speak out. Here he is. He is 25 years of age, and he is actually going to seek election in the Swedish Parliament in september. 25 years of age. He is the son of a journalist who actually spoke to our swedish business correspondent. She did admit that there was this 15your affair when she was a journalist based in paris but she never admitted that there was a child that came out of this relationship, and now he is speaking out about that. He says he does not want people to judge him on this basis. He wants to be judged on his own merits which begs the question why he even mentions it in the first place. More aspects that are quite interesting he spoke to a local free weekly newspaper. Im just curious why he did not speak to a magazine and ask for money. The other aspect that is quite interesting, and i think marcus will definitely have more say about this than i do he is seeking election for the right wing party. His father quite notoriously socialist. Their economic policies, for instance, are quite far away from the policies of the socialist party. So, like father, not like sun in this case. And he did say that he had to read locks when he was in school, but that is about as leftwing as he has ever been he had dreadlocks when he was in school. Now its time for a look at the business news. First to do industry. Very happy to be guest starring in james segment. The Abu Dhabibased carrier has agreed to inject 560 Million Euros into era tally a as part of a plan to save the troubled italian brand, which had been flooded with bankruptcy. The deal may rile european competitors, some of whom have called for the European Commission to step in to stop the deal. As the ink dries on the deal the strategy has come into focus. For years, the airline has been buying minority shares in several carriers in asia, europe, and australia. It stayed away from Traditional Airline alliances, which it calls fractured. The latest deal will open up the Abu Dhabibased carrier to europes fourthlargest travel market. What a brand. Its one of the oldest brands in aviation. 1947. Air italia is a good airline, a Strong Airline with regard to passenger carrying, and it has a good fit but for a range of reasons, historically, its a poor business financially. Since its launch in 2003, it has been in a race to catch up with its dubaibased rival. They, too, have refrained from joining any alliances, relying instead on their brand and reputation to retain loyalty. Germanys lufthansa has called on the European Commission to reject the deal, citing the use of illegal state aid to break competition rules. They will need to get Commission Approval before they are officially able to take off. Staying in the airline business, tragedy struck carrier malaysia airlines. It is facing a complete overhaul. The fund already owns around 70 and will buy out the other shareholders. Malaysia airlines was already in trouble financially before it was hit by two major disasters. Since then it is estimated the airline has lost 2 million a day. Meanwhile, the federal Aviation Authority in the United States is barring u. S. Airlines from flying over iraq. The faa cites the Armed Conflict in iraq as militants their fight security forces. It comes only hours after the isis state started and strikes over military targets. The ban applies to all u. S. Carriers, but nonus carriers have already stopped flying over iraq. British airways said on friday it would reroute its flights that usually cross iraq year space. We have seen a lot of attention on geopolitical tensions including the situation in iraq in the past 24 to 48 hours in the stock markets, and in the United States this hour we are actually seeing shares trading firmly higher this hour. Investors team to be reacting to news that russia is ending military exercises near its border to ukraine. The hope is that this could lead to a deescalation of the western standoff with russia. Lets also talk you through the european close. The news of the United States seemed to weigh on shares the side of the atlantic. Shares in mcdonalds are underperforming other indices on wall street this friday. It comes after the fast food chain reported a disappointing 2. 5 drop in sales in july. Mcdonalds is facing a tough u. S. Market, and also the fallout of a chinese food scandal. Sales in asia were down as much as 7. 3 , following claims th is is democracy now today i authorize targeted airstrikes to protect our personnel and a humanitarian effort to save thousands of iraqi civilians were trapped on a mountain without food, water and facing almost certain death. Is an obama becomes the fourth u. S. President in a row
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