West African Leaders will hold a summit to discuss the coup in niger. It is the First Official reaction since leaders nor the deadline to reinstate the president. The threat of military intervention has not yet been acted upon. The military has closed the airspace. Closed since sunday night, the airspace has remained empty. Not a sale airplane flying over the country. As it ignores the deadline to reinstate the president , the junta that has take own over the west african country accuses the group of preparing to intervene. Information currently in our possession indicates the forces of a foreign power but he to attack niger and its people cured in coordination as well as armed terrorist groups. So for the ivory coast, senegal and nigeria have said they would join in to drive out the junta showed the military intervention go ahead. Mali and burkina faso have said they would come to nigers defense. Enough on their platedont hao fight in the military strength ways obviously in their. This is a risk for theit must ss time. Its northern neighbor algeria which shares a 1000 kilometer border with jerry is concerned a intervention could cause further instability in the region. As the antifrench sentiment continues to grow in the region the former colonizer remained supportive hoping the president will be reinstated soon. For now france has no plans to deploy the 1000 500 soldiers currently take currently stationed on jerry and territory. We spoke earlier to a reporter following the developments and he gave us of this update on civilians. According to people i talk with yesterday and today, people are convinced forces will in the provincial palace. They dont know the day. Yesterday concern was waiting to see. Trying to see to bomb the provincial palace. The fear of forces striking the palace emotion that we are detecting from people. There is a big junta in the capital. What we are seeing now is a dramatic sentiment. The in the capital most of the intersection is civilians controlling. Security forces controlling kabul. Something like that. Civilians, those who are doing this job. Most of the people im talking about, they took money from them. This is a situation which can go. The may be kind of a civil war. Ukrainian military officials have restated claims russia is using chemical weapons in the country in violation of International Conventions of war. The military spokesperson told reporters russia had dropped grenades containing what is presumed to be a banned substance with a strong irritant effect. From the south, the general of the taurean group went ahead and confirmed what we have often suspected which is the use of chemical weapons against the troops. This being two warheads from fire from an ml rs system by the russian occupiers against our troops filled with a chemical warhead. While no one was injured we are continuing to monitor the situation. We spoke to our correspondent who gave us more details. The commander of the military sector got a chemical attack on august 6. It is nothing new. There have been reports by Ukraine Russia had been using a chemical weapon. I would like to talk about the substances as you mentioned. Presumably used. This is a substance that has been banned. And by a Chemical Weapons Convention signed by russia in 1993. Russia is not supposed to produce and to use such a substance. It was different for use of a poison gas in the trenches of world war i. There were already claims last year in december by the Ukrainian Navy bayou creek by grenades lunch by russia had been containing the gas. Nothing new in those claims. Those claims are corroborated by a military spokesperson. Lets hear about what medics on the battlefield are saying about the effects of such Chemical Substances when used against ukrainian soldiers. Russia recently began using chemical weapons which is why sometimes we see soldiers coming to us with symptoms such as shortness of breath, he rotation of the mucous membranes, the eyes, the throat. We have not yet identified the weapon properly. What we can see is teargas and yellow powder are being used. We may not know what it is but we can say the chemical weapon has already been used several times. And this was not the case during the first few months. Some 16 migrants are believed to have drowned and dozens remained missing after a shipwreck off the coast of tunisia and Western Sahara over the weekend. The two survivors have told officials all the 57 people on board were from subsaharan african countries bound for italy when it sank in tunisian waters. The latest tragedy is one of several ill rated d crossings as the north african coast has become a gateway for migrants and asylumseekers attempting dangerous voyages in the hopes of utter life. To the u. S. Where a former Minneapolis Police officer has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in George Floyds death in police tallassee. The officer has testified he nearly held back bystanders as Derek Chauvin note on floyds neck for nine minutes. Our correspondent reports. Marking the end of a series of state and federal trials, the last of the former Minneapolis Police officers involved in George Floyds death was sentenced to almost five years for his role in the killing. The judge deemed him unrepentant. To be perfectly honest after three years of reflection, i was hoping for a little more remorse, regret, acknowledgment of some responsibility. Youre sentenced to 57 months in prison with credit for three to 40 days already served. Floyd who was africanamerican was killed in may 2020 when officer Derek Chauvin who was white knelt on his neck for nine and a half minutes. Despite floyd saying he could not breathe. He was found guilty in may of aiding and abetting manslaughter and has denied wrongdoing stating he held back bystanders at the scene as a human traffic cone. Prosecution argued this stopped others from helping. George floyd narrated his own death. Over the course of a restraint that lasted more than nine long minutes. Until they lost consciousness, stopped breathing and his heart stopped beating. The defendant stood by and allowed it to happen. s state sentence will run alongside a three and a half year federal sentence for a separate conviction on a civil rights charge. The deaths part mass protest across the u. S. And abroad and triggered a National Reckoning into institutional racism and police brutality. Staving in the u. S. Danny the u. S. , a judge has dismissed Donald Trumps deformation counterclaim against the writer e. G. Carol who brought a trump had sued carol for defamation after she claimed he was liable for rape. In slovenia the police say the death toll from days of heavy rains and flooding has climbed to six. Cleanup operations are underway with operation from neighboring countries. Landslide swept away homes and clogged sewers with debris. Emerald maxwell has the story. Large parts of northwest and central slovenia on the water. After we days of torrential rains caused floods, destroyed loadings and bridges destroyed buildings and bridges. Thousands of tourists and locals were forced to evacuate. We were near a lake and within a short time it got dramatic. We were rescued with boats across the lake. Children first. Two of us did not make it across. They had to trot to climb trees to safety. This mans home was washed away. He counts his family lucky after several people were killed in the storms. First the bridge collapsed. Then everything got stuck to the bridge and headed toward the houses. Nature is fighting back against everything we are doing. Water has the power. It destroys everything. The important thing is that our lives were saved. Cleanup operations are underway. Villagers are struggling with power cuts and lack of drinking water. Slovenia has appealed for International Help particularly in the shape of helicopters, soldiers and prefabricated bridges. It has created the cleanup after this truly Huge National disaster will be a top priority. A disaster that will also change our priorities in terms of investments. With an estimated 500 Million Euros worth of damage, the Prime Minister called it slovenias worst Natural Disaster in recent history. Finally, a new record has been set for a female hollywood director. Barbie has topped 1 billion worldwide. The film directed by oscarnominated greta gerwig supplants the previous record held by wonder woman. Emerald maxwell has more on how this movie has been such a Global Box Office hit. Barbie. In less than three weeks barbie has sailed past the 1 billion milestone in Global Box Office ticket sales. Faster than any film in the history of warner bros. Studio behind the hit. Lets do this. At the helm, oscarnominated writer and director greta gerwig is the first woman to surpassed the billiondollar benchmark as a solo director. We have such joy making it. I feel like people could have has set that have had half as much fun. So far it has hit that mark. Starring Margot Robbie and ryan gosling the film follows barbie as she contends with her fantasyland. It has tapped into a cultural zeitgeist. It is not just a movie for ladies or girls. I love how they made commentary on both sides of the gender spectrum. Also existential drag. Existential dread. I love the concept about life and death and what is like in the real world. It becomes the 53rd movie to have made over 1 billion in box office history. Beating the Summer Box Office rival oppenheimer which for its part has grossed over 500 million globally in three weeks. Youre watching france 24. Stay with us. Hello, everyone. You are watching france 24. Stay tuned. She had been called africas premier diva. One of the most inspired women in the world and the most powerful celebrity in africa. With more than 16 million albums sold, multigrammy award singersongwriter activist and educator, she is now the laureate of the Polar Music Prize are regarded perhaps as the worlds most prestigious music award. Hello. Hello. You always seem so joyful. Your energy is inspirational, is infectious. Is that in you . Do you have to work on it . We all have it in us. For me, is there any reason for me not to be joyful . I am doing what i love to do. You just won an award regarded as perhaps the worlds most prestigious use of prize. It is equivalent to the nobel. It had previously been given to paul mccartney, elton john, stevie wonder. What does it mean to you . It comes as a surprise. I was not expecting any prize. To be in such company it is humbling. At the same time it is a responsibility. Each of the artists that have received the prize, they have brought something immense and really helpful for music. I think i am going to try to do my best to fit in those shoes. You are also the holder of numerous Grammy Awards first nominated in 1983. First won in 2007. You probably have toomey honors and awards i could mention. What is it like when you see them lined up . Unfortunately for you i dont line them up all in the same place. I spread them. There is not space for all of it. The last time it was for best album and global music in 2022. In one of your early hits, in 1993, the message was also to Pay Attention to mother earth. Even a climate activist. All of your career. When did you become aware of the points of the planet and Climate Change . My mothers mother. She would wake me up sometime after school. You have to learn, you have to understand, you are part of all of this. Other that from her. To respect the fact that we have to benefit somebody else and vice versa. What has changed since she wrote a goal of . When i wrote the song in 1993, i was pregnant. My worry was in which earth my daughter would want to grow up. That was the purpose. There are going to be islands that would disappear. When you travel as much as i do, you see it is not just words, it is the reality. I have seen their perspectives drying out, there can bully destroyed by hurricanes. How do you stay a human being knowing that other human beings are impacted by Climate Change . We all have the ability to do something about it. Sting features come he collaborates. Incredible people. Bono, alicia keys, peter gabriel. There are so many. Tell us about one of your favorites. Each of us, we were humbled in the service of what we were working on. Look at the state of the rain forest today. To travel all the way through both the oceans, to bring those to nourish the amazon forest. Went you are on stage, youre smiling, mesmerized. I was looking at the commons people write about you online. So many. Queen angeli, you are sharing the positivity around you. Do you realize how much you mean to the fans . When you are an artist, you just do your music and hope people listen to it and come to your concert. Here i am in 2002, traveling across africa with unicef and you see people calling your sons name and you go ok. I made something positive here. That is when it hits me that everything that happened was closely watched. It had been penetrating the culture in every part of africa. That is the response to billy i dont take lightly. I asked a couple of them to come and speak about the Climate Change. What is important to them . Most of them choose social justice. There was to have to do. Quick it seems that in everything you do, you are seeking to better the world. You are creating a Foundation Like a baton of foundation that creates opportunities for women and girls. What is the biggest challenge in how young women in africa are doing . We have to start from scratch. Quick that situation is complicated. We have childbirth, child marriage, early abortion. List goes on. In most of the countries in africa, rape is a crime. The Banking System is built in africa. And to create jobs for boys and girls. Everything is linked. How can you tell people that it is not raining . The way we cook, everything that can produce co2, they have to be educated to understand that. We are, beings. Every challenge, you can only understand it if youre educated. If that is how you can build a solution to that problem. How to get there, you can work better. You speak in five languages. Maybe more. You live here in paris. You came here four years ago because you wanted to be an independent physician, an independent artist. How important has perez been for you on your journey . Paris is like new york. They are melting pot cities. People come and stay here. When you get out of your house, your footstep is in the world. It is not just an image, it is a reality. When youre of the on the subway, that is all. Advocat music started here. Learning more about the history of music and how it is fitting. You think you could maybe sing us out . I will never let them steal and take the best of you. Keep building cities. We rise. Mother nature has a way of warning us. Do you hear it . Your stories inspire the future. Your daily lives create the news. Your cultures, struggles and successes at the heart of our program. We tell the stories of those that made our planet and those who are helping it. We tell the story of the world. Liberty, e gaudi, actuality. Amy from new york, this is democracy now what happened to Henrietta Lacks represents a lost history of experimentation and exploitation of black people in biomedical research, grounded in the myth of biological race, that white scientists