would-be first lady plagiarized michelle obama and her speech to the republican convention this week. delegates are waiting to hear from donald trump s five presidential running mate vice presidential running mate, who will be speaking later in cleveland, ohio. thanks for being with us. we will start right here in france, where the government has confirmed that three of its soldiers have died while on intelligence gathering mission in libya. these are the first confirmed western military casualties in the north african country since it emerged earlier this year that special forces are operating on the ground there. it is also the first time that france has admitted to having special forces in libya. president ollanta described the fatal president all on this rugby fatal helicopter crash as an accident. shot the group says it crackdown. let s explore it with a georgeessor at washington university in washington, d.c. first question from the details surrounding these deaths
we begin with the rescue mission off the coast of southern italy. scrambling to save hundreds of migrants on a cargo ship. the vessel was abandoned. charlotte hawkins has more. just 40 kilometers from the shore, six coast card officers boarded the ship, taking control of the vessel. it was spotted overnight heading toward the italian coast before eventually lost power. the crew had jumped ship, a tactic used by smugglers to avoid arrest. coming 48 hours after italy intercepted the freighter with mostly syrian migrants. at least 13 people lost her lies after blazing engulfed a ship off the coast of albania. italian authorities have rescued more than 170,000 people in the last 14 months in a desperate b id to flee unrest. many others have perished as they have tried to make the crossing. we saw this past year was bad for migrants trying to reach europe s shore. run us through the numbers. it was the worst year since the beginning of the century. double the average number
house searches and a woman killed in childbirth. coming up, our driverless car is coming to our roads soon. google has taken the idea to the detroit auto show to get the motor industry on board. we will head to the new paris philharmonic inaugurated last night. the outside may not be complete first, francois hollande gave a speech today to the arab world institute. that is linked to the opening of a forum called rebuilding the arab world. the stock comes eight days after the attack on the magazine charlie hebdo. the building was one beaming the phrase we are all charlie. let s listen to what the french president had to say. all the misery, all the inequality all the conflicts that have remained unresolved for too long. it is muslims who are the first victims of fanaticism, fundamentalism, and intolerance. there were 40 world leaders who came to paris for the march. there was no top-level u.s. dignitary. washington is hoping to make up for some criticism over the abs
the new government expected to halt a privatization program. new york city has been spared the worst of a massive snowstorm. travel across the region has granted to a halt. thousands of flights canceled. it was not a liberation, but a revelation of horrors. that is how francois hollande has described the liberation of auschwitz. celebrations are being held to mark the celebration of the end of that day. survivors, he d knowledge the horrors of the past while trying to reassure the jewish community of its place in the fibers of france. quicksilver places here. this is your home. you have given france your talent and labor. you have given her your courage and at times, your blood. our country would no longer be france if it were to live without you. if terrorism were to lead you away from the shores of france away from french language, away from french culture, away from the french culture that emancipated the jews, terrorism would have reached its goal. it was called the fin
african migrants are dayesting for the second against a new law which allows illegal immigrants to be jailed. 100 have been detained. saidsraeli government has it wants to encourage the migrants inside of israel to go home. we are in jerusalem and we have more on that. gallagher, the protests seem to have significantly diminished this monday. still, the people are angry, aren t they? yes, as a matter of fact, there are about 10 times less people on the streets of tel aviv this monday afternoon compared to the 30,000 strong crowd we saw yesterday. there are only about between 2000 and 4000 african migrants headed toward western embassies in tel aviv. u.s.h, canadian, and representations were where the protesters were seeking hand over letters in which they were asking western government to exert pressure on israeli authorities, asking them to grant these african migrants this status and recognize them as refugees political refugees, and not to treat them as economic migran