Is to blame for using toxic gas on syrian civilians. , a special report from thailand on Human Trafficking and slavery in the fishing industry. Our correspondent top two men who escaped. And coming up, the World Economic forum underway in the swiss alps, our Business Editor will be live from davos. Many mouse gets a star on the hollywood walk of fame after mickey mouse. First, our top story live from paris. We start in washington where the threeday Government Shutdown has come to an end. On monday, Congress Approved a shortterm funding bill with the next about on a very eight. Igrants agreed after democrats agreed after republicans promised to bring Immigration Reform to the floor , many coming weeks activist angry the democrats caved without achieving anything from three days of political hostagetaking. We have more. Angry,ppointed and protesters take to the street after policy politicians ended the Government Shutdown without a concrete deal. I have lived my life in this country and i pledge the legions to the flag. For them do not protect us is a betrayal. This is a humanitarian issue. We are working hard and paying taxes, trying to get a better education yet they do not care. They do not care we are here not knowing what will happen next. They are the socalled dreamers, recipients of the daca program which protects young immigrants who arrived as a child from deportation, a Program Donald Trump said he would end by march. They are angry at the democrats for letting up too easily on nothing more than a fake promise to allow a vote. They had hoped a bipartisan agreement would be reached during the shutdown. We have the dream act, a bipartisan legislation, bringing that to the floor what has been great for us to pass it w with e continued resolution that has to go on to operate the government. That would have been i ideal for us. The fate of the 700,000 dreamers is in the balance as Congress Prepares for another showdown in the next three weeks. Turkey is stepping up its offensive over kurdish targets in syria and the turkish president says there is no going back as turkey is trying to president get the turkish fighters out of a northern syrian town and for turkekey, ty are a teterrorist group but also backed by the u. S. And its fight against isis. Syrian kurds are urging civilians to mobilize e against the turkish assault. We have more. And hence clashes on monday as fighters backed by turkey engaged with the u. S. Backed curtis militia collaborators from the enclave. The turkish commander leading the operation from across the border, the military offensive in the interest of peace, thus the name operation olive branch. We are preventing the Islamic State group from expanding to our country and other countries to carry out actions against eccentric quality. Achieve peace for our country and the region. Saturday, air and artillery strikes followed by across 40 incursion of turkish troops. The goal was to crush the kurdish ypg militia who they consider terrorist and drive them out. Ypg is the biggest part of the alliance known as the Syrian Democratic forces. They say they may bring in reinforcements to meet the turkish advance. Attack whiched the will be a quagmire from which it will only exit after suffering great losses. Sdf and ypg arere supported by the u. S. Having played a major role in dislodging the Islamic State group amid syrian strongholds. They struck shelter some 800,000 civilians, some are atta by earlierer fighting in the syrian civil war. France, russia, and the u. S. Have called on turkey to act with restraint to avoid civilian casualties. Has announced new sanctions on 25 people and companies over their links to syrias chemical weapons program. It comes as 30 International Diplomats including the u. S. Secretary of state are meeting in paris to push for action against perpetrators of deadly Chemical Attacks. The French Initiative after russia repeated vetoes entered ended an International Inquiry as to who is to blame for using toxic gas against civilians in syria. Fight for their brereath, dozensns of residents treatment after the Syrian Government forces bombarded a rebel held enclave. They used chlorine gas on civilians. They suspected chemical weapons attacks sustained less than two weeks after a similar one in a nearby neighborhoodod. 130 toxicays at least gas attacks carried out in syria between 2012 and 2017. Bobby west blames Bashar Alassad, u. N. Investigators find evidence of nerve gas and only for attacks. The United States puts the blame for the latest attack on russia, saying moscow is not willing to restrain the regime and it is costing innocent syrian lives as the russians stop a u. N. Week, the head of the United Nations called the Security Council to revive efforts to punish those responsible and france called for a fresh multinational initiative to preserve evidence of chemical weapons attacks. And unity cannot be an option. Option,ity cannot be an those who use the weapons, state or nonstate actors must be punish and those in may consider using them should be deterredd from doing so. A 29 nation groups meeting in paris increaeasing pressurures n Bashar Alassad and russia to protect the regime. Hase has ordered france ordered asset freezes over 25 individuals and groups inspected of helping serious use of chemical weapons. For more, i am joined by benjamin. A senior fellow at the foundation of Strategic Research , specializing in weapons of mass destruction and you were at an earlier presentation today concerning this meeting. What do you hope will come out of today . The things are simple, we thought that chemical weapons had disappeared from the battlefield since the end of the 1990s. It appears that is not the case. Not the case in syria or in sudan, or in malaysia. So, what about the nonuse or what we thought would be e a taboo. The norm is any process of weakening. The French Initiative is to remember that perpetrators of Chemical Attacks wherever they be far to be are to responsible for their deeds. The whole purpose is to create a states inp of willing order to blame and shame organizations, entities, or individuals being convinced to program, orhemical a chemical attack, in order, in the future, we do hope, that it can deter individuals to be a part of future programs or future Chemical Attacks. It is a partnership. It is free. And it will gathther Something Like 29 countries at the beginning. The United Nations security region will be there in paris this afternoon. It is a signal that impunity cannot be tolerated. In order for things to change, action has to take place. France said it would give sanctions to 25 individuals and companies linked to the Chemical Attacks by syria, do you think sanctions are the way to go and enough . They are not enough. It is the first step. To blame, to shame, to sanction is the first step. Have astep would be to Legal Mechanism and to put the guys into cards. This is a very sensitive issue between states, as you can as you do now. At the moment, there is no agreement on such a step among the states being involved in the partnership. For the moment, it is sanctioning and blaming and shaming. As a first step. This is a matter of shortcircuiting things at the United Nations where russia has repeatedly decoded vetoed serious inquiry as to the situation in syria, what do you think about the russian reaction . To that initiative . And the one today. Formally, they could recount the initiative because it is not very risky. Fundamentally, they would argue against it because they have will and signs of bad the sad story in syria related to the use of chemical weapons by use of the Bashar Alassad regime. It is not legally binding instrument, it is just a partnership that they can say, go let the western countries and for the rest, no risk for the Bashar Alassad regime. Thank you for speaking to us. The senior fellow at the foundation for Strategic Research. A special report from thailand, the fourth largest exporter of fish but a new report says they are doing little to crack down on the exploitation of workers on fishing boats. Many are migrants subjecteted to physical and mental abuse. They have their passports confiscated by cruise and rarely get the salaries they were promised, turning them into virtual slaves. We met two of the fisherman who managed to escape. Vesseley memet on a fishing whetheher they were both exploid by a violelent crew. His family thought he was that byer six years at sea reunited thanks to a friend who alerted authorities once he was freed by indononesian forceses. Their ordeal again in thailand where they work across Southeast Asian waters. On the fishing boat, i worked almost 20 hours a day and they beat us. The we were not at sea, crew would lock us up. There were just two of us and they force us to fight each other in c cages. Scared because i still see the fishing boat i worked on and its capaptain. They sometimes come around. Cambodian and burmese show regione fate, the affected as s human rightsts wah it is reports calls for thailand authorities to better tackle the form of slavery, damaging the lucrative fishing industry. The victims are often migrants thomas decent wages they never got from his these and wages they never got. Company say they cannot find tough fishermen so they go traffickers who recruit migrants here or go get them in neighboring countries and then the workers are sold to the boats. He sees education as a way to help migrants and traffic workers. It opened a school for their children in the south of bangkok, hoping to give them a better chance in life. Magnitude 8. 2a earthquake off of Kodiak Island has prompted a tsunami warning for a large part of coastal alaska and british columbia, canada. People reported the quake was found hundreds of miles away in anchorage and the rest of the u. S. West coast is under a tsunami watch. On a lighter note, a new movie icon with her star on hollywoods walk of fame, minnie mouse, here she is saying thank you alongside katy perry and mickey mouse. Mickey, i am so happy you are here to share this wonderful day with me. That is for you this is the best day ever. Thank you, thank you, thank you minnie mouse made her screen debut in the 1920s and perhaps in a nod to the feminist movement in hollywood, correcting Mission Comes for decades after mickey mouse was given the same honor. You are watctching france 24. The u. S. Government is back to work after an almost threeday shutdown after the democrats reluctantly voted for a three week reprieve, a move that has angered immigration activists who wanted them to fight longer and harder for the dreamers. On peopleps sanctions and companies over their links to syrias chemical weapons prprogram. Diplomats meeting in paris after rerepeated vetoes from russia ad in an International Inquiry into who is to blame for using toxic gas on syrian civilians. We go live to the World Economic forum in davos where political humanitarian and Business Leaders meeting in the swiss else. Our Business Editor is there. How is they won going . Plenty o of snow but thehe sunshine is shining for the opening day of the World Economic orem. Forum. Some called for an end to isolationists and protectionist trend and spoke about changes in technology and the advantages and risks that can pose. That is one of the hot topics at and concerns about geopolitical tensions, nuclear weapons, and climate change. Cyber security is one of the top 10 most likely and most impactful risks facing the world in 2018. By thee, i am joined head of data policy for the World Economic forum. In the past year or so, a number of attacks, data breaches, that have put awareness on this. Is that good for people, good for them to think about what is at risk . People should always think about their data. It is hard to keep track of because more and more is generated and we are seeing it is increasingly difficult for consumers to know what is known about them and who is collecting them and using it for what purpose. It is a challenge to balance the evergrowing data being collected and the aggregation of the data by a handful of companies with the control governments and individuals and consumers would like to have back about themselves. Who should be cast with data privacy . Individuals, governments, companies . Yes, all of the above. What we do at the center at the not issues that can be assaulted by governments alone or by private enterprise or corporations, it requires a multistate approach with academia, civil society, government, and the private sector working together. Tech giants are introducing virtual assistants, Artificial Intelligence technology that comes into your home, which can help daily life. It must pose a novel another level of risk, does it end increase the risk of losing your personal data and information . Advantagese a lot of to the Technology Used on demonstrated a few weeks ago at because rumor Electronics Show in las vegas, we have a war between the major tech players as to who will be the dominant digital assistant in your life. If you think more broadly, what are the Digital Assistants controlling . Be Something Like 50 billion connected devices and the internet of things. That is what these Digital Assistants are connecting to. When you think about the data, and credible benefit can be derived from it. When you aggregate that much data, there are potential risks and we are trying to figure out how to minimize the risks will maximizing the potential societal and marshall value of all of the data . Your branch is based in San Francisco, working closely with Silicon Valley. What are the new trends we should watch out for next . We are in San Francisco and situated very close to a lot of the technology companies. We see a lot of the same trends i touched on earlier, a lot of technologies, particularly ai and block chain. We are working on nine different projects and days are two of the most forward leading, drones and omated vehicles autonomous, rather, and precision medicine. The ability to map your genome and come up with personalized medical therapies and plans. It sounds crazy, but to cure cancer in our lifetime is not insane and it could happen. Those are the things we are hoping to work with companies in Silicon Valley and beyond to help solve. Mostat is the one important thing individuals can do to protect their own data and information . Factor authentication, we talk about passwords which are not perfect, taking an additional step to feel owners but is the simplest thing most consumers can do that is readily available to increase the security significantly. Thank you for joining us. We have time for a quick check of the market after a recordbreaking session on wall street on monday and also another round of records on the asian markets. A mixed picture for the European Market halfway through the trading day. The footsie up slightly. You. L send it back to thank you for the report. From beautiful davos. Time for our press review. We look at the papers. You start with a piece from the telegraph about the summit. A lot more to davos than the daytime debates. Davos is about the nighttime activities, if you know the right people. The telegraph says there is elitist system that determines the caliber of your party invite. White is all access but during the day orange is for journalists and green is the one you want that will get you into all of the parties hosted by the rich and famous. A party thrown by a russian billionaire at his palatial chalet about 15 minutes from davos. These are an endless stream of champagne, vodka, caviar, and russian models. To out do each other each year in terms of hosting parties and last year a party was hosted by a tech company from the u. S. Were just sit champagne and doubled on shark. If you suffered nibbled on shark. One person told the telegraph it is usually a lot of middleaged men in suits dancing around awkwardly. You have been looking at reactions to the u. S. Government , the end of the shutdown. A decision that has not made any heroes in the press. The conservative paper the wall street journal says Charles Schumer was shut down. The journal calls the episode a fake drama. Slate is scathing in its view of how the democrats performed, they cost them losers who exhibitedd little of the confidence and daring one might expect from a party who is on the right side of what may be an Unprecedented Movement in the u. S. They limit what they see a safe opportunity, they say the shutdown in 2013 lasted for two weeks and this time it lasted barely one day and could have been the first active resistance by the democrats. Instead, the only thing more astonishing than the man in the white house is the fecklessness of the party opposing him. A diplomatic route over sweden and china over a bookseller. Thehey were abducted over the weekend. He is a swedish citizen of chinese born who was snatched by plainclothes officers on the weekend while traveling to beijing, company by two european diplomats. It was a brazen abduction. The second time he, who writes about the chinese political elite, has been adopted and the chinese of the ambassador to sweden has been summoned. The Swedish Press are coming down hard on swedish authorities , saying they are not doing enough to help the situation. The paper says, is there anything china cannot get away with . The swedish paper calls on sweden to call on the bullying of beijing, slamming the arrogance and brazenness of the arrest. This is a china that is not afraid of diplomatic repercussions. Something on the lighter side, a movie trailer for a friends movie reunion has gone social media going crazy but it turned out to be a fake. And quite cruel. Cruel if you believed it and if you are a huge fans of the iconic new york 1996. A movie has been rumored sitcom. Facebook account attributed to will ferrell posted a fan made trailer for a nonexistent elm about friends film about footage, using other the actor shot. It was called the one with the reunion. It is totally fake. That did not stop a video from being shared 48 million times on facebook and hundreds of thousands of likes, shares, comments. A Business Insider looks at the more market side of the story and says it is proof of a major flaw in facebook, the folks people can tag each other and share things means they can news can shared spread super rapidly. The front cover of the next month new york or will speak to all of us suffering from the dreariness of this january. And Advent Calendar of january which they called the coolest month, for those in the northern hemisphere, 31 days that starts off with a hangover and is pretty much a mixture of sunset at 11 00 a. M. , cold, gray, wet weather, taxes, and the flu. We are just a week from the ending. Thank you for the look at the press review, get a closer look at the press review on our website, france 24. Com. France is famous for its wine and champagne, but its cocktails, not so much. Coming up, the colombian expatriate making it her mission to change that. During this, paris cocktail announcer this is a production of China Central television amamerica. A. Walter how do you insnspi teens to volununteer . The numbes arent good. Only a q quarter of americans age 16 and older are making time toto volunteer a at least once a year, so volunteerirism is at a record lw in the United States. Thats according to a 2014 u. S. Bureau of labor statistics report. This week on full frame, empowering the next generation of volunteers to make an impact worldwide. Im mike walter coming to you from the heart of new yorks times square. Letts take it full frame