he was assassinated while walking across the bridge new the kremlin in 2015. brazil's former president is sentenced to nine and a half years in jail after being convicted on corruption charges and money laundering. for google over french tax authorities. that's all coming up in the business update. iceberg hason ton antarctic the peninsula. you're watching live from paris. ♪ >> donald trump has arrived in paris as president macron's guest of honor at france's bastille day celebrations on friday. it is the most important date on the french calendar which marks the french revolution. 100 year also celebrates years since america entered world war i on france's side. doug is joining us from the elysees palace. the busy day for president macron. he's off to welcome president trump. >> good morning. >> i'm not sure if you can hear me. an important day for president macron. he's off to meet donald trump. >> absolutely. both visits are very important. it's easy to forget the angela merkel meeting going on through the morning because it has been largely overshadowed by the visit of the u.s. president. his first since taking office. trump warnedld earlier against visiting paris. visit. very important he has back-to-back meetings. an extremely busy day. his meeting with angela merkel had been planned long in advance. hisappened to coincide with first official visit. because lessing than six months ago donald trump was citing the mysterious friend is nojim who said paris longer paris. he's no longer going to be going to paris. nobody ever found out who that was. we know something persuaded donald trump to change his mind and make this return visit to europe and make this trip to the french capital after a very tough summit in germany which left him feeling lonely and isolated. his lot of reckoning even white house aides were surprised by his decision to fly back across the atlantic. official reason is to mark the 100th anniversary of the u.s. entry into world war i. he's going to be the guest of honor at the bastille day parade. lovingtrump is known for pomp and ceremony. he will be getting a lot of military hardware. trumpets, fanfare tomorrow. loves a parade. he's going to be getting his parade tomorrow and he will be right there with french president. he is under increasing fire and scrutiny in washington for an escalating controversy involving his campaign and allegations of collusion with russia. this is an opportunity to get away from that. presidents tend to like foreign trips. you can bet that donald trump is going to appreciate at least 27 from that in washington. when he holds a press conference housetoday the white press corps which travels everywhere he goes is going to be right in the front row and i can almost guarantee the questions they are going to be asking aren't healthy likes his stake cooked. >> thank you. president trump's visit to paris comes at as he battles new allegations that russia helped him win the white house. his eldest son has admitted meeting with the russian lawyer to take dirt on his father's campaign rival. an interview he said vladimir putin would have preferred a clinton victory. >> distancing himself from the scandal, donald trump has finally addressed in the june meeting between his son and a russian lawyer that could implicate his campaign in an ongoing investigation about russia's meddling with the election. president trump said he didn't know about the meeting until a few days ago. and that most anyone would have taken the meeting. president trump chose the christian broadcasting network, a channel that has been friendly with his administration. he waxed eloquent about meeting vladimir putin. >> i think we got along very very well. a tremendously powerful nuclear power and so are they. it doesn't make sense not to have some kind of a relationship. we are the most powerful country in the world and we are getting more and more powerful. i'm a big military person. thee hypothesized that russian president would have preferred hillary clinton. becausenk probably not when i want a strong military, she wouldn't have spent the money on the military. >> he has denied coordinating with russia and tampering with the elections. every time the president tries to change the subject of new revelations keep surfacing. >> the russian court has sentenced a man accused of killing the russian opposition leader to 20 years in prison. he walkedled as across a year near the kremlin. last month of a russian jury found five men guilty of involvement in the killing. prosecutors had called for life sentences. sentence was handed down by the judge in a moscow court or the trials taking place over the last year. five chechen men found guilty just last month. the prosecutor in the case asked for 17 years to life sentences for all five of the men. he was shot as he crossed a bridge just 100 meters to the wall of the kremlin. forbrothers found guilty the more logistical side of things helping follow. being the driver. information about where and where he would be. to 20 years.en 11 the long sentence but certainly less than was called for by the prosecution. >> allies have talked about irregularities in the case. there's a lot of things we didn't find out during the case. waslawyers for the family allowed to participate in the as normally happens in russia if somebody is murdered. i get a lawyer to represent the family. they complained there were a number of problems in proceedings. asked if somebody high up in security services either in chechnya or the federal security services to come before the court it was denied. the strongman leader of chechnya wouldn't come before the court. when they asked for another key the lawyers say is most probably behind ordering the , security services went to chechnya to find him. he wouldn't open the door and they left. there is a whole series of problems here. the lawyers have said the problem is that maybe we know who was guilty of the killing. they have been sentenced. we don't know who asked for the contract killing to be carried out. that's the main thing that has to be found now. president isrmer to serve 9.5 years behind bars after he was convicted on corruption charges. that conviction marks the highest profile victory for charges against dozens of political and business elite. he denies the charges. he will remain for a pending an appeal. -- great pending an appeal -- free pending appeal. moment toe it was a celebrate. for others a moment of somber reflection. the conviction of the former president has polarized brazil. say he is an innocent man targeted because he was popular, a front runner for next year's presidential election. >> his candidacy was growing so they decided to convicted him. and removed dilma rousseff said the country would grow again but brazil is still in crisis. >> he has been brought down by a corruption probe. found guilty of accepting a luxury seat and $1.1 million. -- luxury seaside apartment and $1.1 million. >> even of he is not going to jail yet his conviction has marked our history. it is changing and that is very important. welcomedrazilians have the sweeping anticorruption investigation. dozens of the elite have been charged. he is the most high-profile politician caught up in the probe. affect his lawyer says influenced the court's ruling. it were an independent judge this procedure would not exist because of so many evidences of innocence. this conviction is absolutely political. >> his conviction sends a message to the political elite that nobody is out of reach. 's afficials in cameroon female suicide bombers have killed at least 12 people and injured dozens. the attack happened late on wednesday night near the nigerian border. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. a trillion ton iceberg has broken off of the antarctic peninsula. it is not necessarily due to climate change. the split from the ice shelf is a natural part of the cycle. the phenomenon is known as carving. >> it have been on the verge of breaking for months. the giant iceberg detached itself from the ice shelf in antarctica on wednesday. in 2014 we first noticed there was a large rift developing in the ice shelf. it was clearly established in the 1980's and have an waiting to happen all of that time. >> the process had accelerated in recent days as the rift reached its breaking point. the 5800 square kilometer one trillion ton iceberg is one of the largest ever recorded. >> is more than a quarter of the size of the country -- >> the rift could have been a natural occurrence. the iceberg will now likely break into fragments and stay in northern waters for decades yet scientists will continue to closely monitor the situation as parts drift south towards the american coast. >> time for the business update. brian quinn joins me. we start with a major legal victory for google. >> the tech giant will not reliable for over one billion euro's in back taxes being sought are the french government. can't tax googles ireland subsidiary. it had accused google of a legally abusing tax loopholes by routing taxes to its headquarters in ireland where business taxes are much lower. than 20it paid less million euro's in corporate tax. in june google was hit with a record 2.4 billion euro fine for anti-competitive practices. new data in china shows a significant jump in trade with north korea compared to last year. north korea is under a strict set of economic sanctions as the international community tries to discourage the country's weapons and missile programs. the u.s. is looking to beijing to rein in north korea. that is more complicated than it may seem. >> tensions between the trump administration and pyongyang have been simmering for months. further than last week after north korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. -- by targeting financial institutions and firms that trade with it. >> we intend to prevent -- present these firms with a clear choice. you can do business with us or north korea. you cannot do business with both. urged tois being ensure sanctions are implemented. donald trump is demanding that beijing crank up the diplomatic itseconomic pressure on nuclear arms neighbor. trade between china and north korea has increased to two $.5 million so far this year. froms up more than 10% 2016. chinese exports to north korea have risen by 29%. imports have fallen by just over 13%. beijing insists it is abiding by sanctions that says it will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to north korea and maintain normal economic relations in areas that do not violate human resolutions. >> time for a check on the markets. european indexes gaining modestly. of a gradual unwinding by the u.s. federal reserve. the frankfort dax upr a percena carmaker under investigation for emissions test cheating in germany. at some morelook of today's top business headlines. the u.s. is planning to renegotiate its trade deal with south korea. american trade officials requesting a special meeting to discuss the 2012 u.s. korea free trade agreement. the administration has complained of a growing trade imbalance with the nation. pilots for a french airline are on strike for six days starting today after talks between unions and the low-cost subsidiary of air france broke down. will be canceled as pilots walkout over working conditions. flight attendants came to an agreement with management yesterday. the french government has completed a 2 billion euro capital increase. it is undergoing a restructuring .lan that involves selling its businesses will be spun off as a separate company. payment apps for individuals have many uses from sharing utility bills to buying things off of auction sites like ebay. a large portion of millennials are using their venom moab to -- for drugs -- event though app to pay for drugs. paypal and by processed nearly $18 billion in payments last year's -- last year. it was only a matter of time. time to bring you our press review. of focus lot unsurprisingly on donald trump's visit to paris today. >> he is in paris. he will be attending a best still day -- bastille day ceremony before dining inside a restaurant inside the eiffel tower. macron has invited him in the hopes of styling himself as trump's new straight talking best friend on the international stage. of ae men have something love-hate relationship. a visit is mutually beneficial. >> that's right. let me show you the front page of charlie hebdo. great again,july using trumps infamous catchphrase. the french paper suggests that macron wants to help bring donald trump out of international isolation. a love-hate relationship. the washington post explains he only agreed to the trip because he was promised a military parade which he loves. complete with fighter jets. the sort of the spectacle he wanted to stage at his own inauguration in january. politico says both of the men are alpha males seeking to stamp their power on the global stage remembering there are both relatively new leaders. the meeting is expected to be a lot more areerative and the men expected to discuss issues like the fight against terrorism. >> the former president of brazil has been sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars for corruption and money laundering. >> the new york times calls it a stunning setback for a brazilian politician who wielded a norm is latin america for decades. says hislian paper defense team are preparing to appeal the decision and they say the presiding judge used the process to politically persecuted him and bury his chances of making what was a planned political comeback. they accuse the judge of losing his impartiality. he is not getting a lot of support. says hebrazilian paper betrayed the country twice. first by throwing away a unique opportunity to fight corruption in brazil and then by betraying the power bestowed upon him. moving on to a trillion ton iceberg that has broken away insolentantarctic and this week. it's not necessarily due to climate change. thehis article from christian science monitor explains about the process that occurred this week. breakups does leave the ice shelf the smallest it has ever been. in theory it is a perfectly andral part of the cycle the ice should re-freeze and reform. the new york times does say this occurrence is a warning sign from antarctica because exceptionally warm weather is melting the arctic ice caps and greenland's ice shape is melting at an alarming pace. if we don't do something to combat carbon emissions it's impossible to know what kind of world we will leave for future generations. >> global warming is affecting wine production. the independent reports that increased temperatures in the mediterranean could result in productivity losses in the european wine industry. in cyprus labour losses of up to workecause of unplanned breaks due to extremely hot weather. goode flipside unusually weather in the u.k. has set off an english sparkling wine boom. . a heartbreak for andy murray. local favorite and reigning champion. >> 2017 is not his ear. he crashed out in the quarterfinal of wimbledon yesterday. let's look at a few of the sports headlines. andy's agony. he lost in a match that was largely injury plagued. he is now backing the uk's only other hopeful who faces venus williams. >> he has become something of a hero for a postmatch interview yesterday. >> casually correcting sexism in a postmatch interview. the british tabloid explains that sam querrey is now the first u.s. player to reach the semifinals of a grand slam in eight years to which he says, the first male player because serena and venus williams have been dominating ladies tennis for quite some years now. thank you for our press review. if you want to see more you can log on to our website at france 24.com. short publicity break. we will be back on the other side. live from paris continues. you're watching france 24. 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