:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to BBC World News Today -
:00:00. > :00:11.A day before the European Championships kick off,
:00:12. > :00:19.the French government issues a new security warning.
:00:20. > :00:26.And minister warns about large crowds gathering.
:00:27. > :00:28.I am in Paris where a large party is getting underway down by the Eiffel
:00:29. > :00:31.Tower. After meeting President Obama,
:00:32. > :00:32.Bernie Sanders WON'T abandon his campaign
:00:33. > :00:40.for the democratic nomination. I am going to do everything
:00:41. > :00:44.in my power and I will work as hard as I can to make sure that
:00:45. > :00:47.Donald Trump does not become Also coming up: French taxi drivers
:00:48. > :00:51.hail victory as Uber as part of its car transport service
:00:52. > :01:02.is declared illegal. And thousands of people pay tribute
:01:03. > :01:05.to Muhammad Ali as a Muslim prayer service is held to honour him
:01:06. > :01:22.in his hometown of Louisville. France is facing its first major
:01:23. > :01:25.security test of the European football championship,
:01:26. > :01:28.with tens of thousands expected to gather tonight
:01:29. > :01:30.for an open-air concert at the foot The country is already
:01:31. > :01:36.on the highest state of alert following the terror attacks
:01:37. > :01:40.in the capital last November. 90,000 police and security
:01:41. > :01:42.officers are being deployed for the month-long tournament,
:01:43. > :01:45.which kicks off on Friday. Ministers have meanwhile called
:01:46. > :01:48.on union leaders to end the disruption caused
:01:49. > :02:07.by nationwide strike action. Hello.
:02:08. > :02:11.Welcome to Paris on a balmy summer's evening. That has been a traumatic
:02:12. > :02:14.18 months for Paris and Sue Knight is the start of what many people
:02:15. > :02:17.hope will be a month of, in the words of the organising committee of
:02:18. > :02:22.this tournament, an end to the negative spiral that has been seen.
:02:23. > :02:30.It will be party time by the Eiffel Tower. A big music conference ahead
:02:31. > :02:35.of the football getting underway tomorrow night with France against
:02:36. > :02:40.Romania. We cannot ignore the huge challenges facing Paris.
:02:41. > :02:42.Well, France says it's ready, and here in the centre of Paris,
:02:43. > :02:48.That, we're told, is one of the biggest TVs in the world.
:02:49. > :02:50.And thousands of people will come here to watch matches.
:02:51. > :02:53.To be honest, if the action's not so interesting - excuse me -
:02:54. > :02:56.they can turn round, and the view is not half bad.
:02:57. > :02:59.But while the fans are concentrating on the football and having fun,
:03:00. > :03:01.for the French authorities, there's serious work to do.
:03:02. > :03:08.Last November, 130 people were killed in the Paris attacks.
:03:09. > :03:10.While the Prime Minister here says there is no specific threat
:03:11. > :03:13.against this tournament, 90,000 security personnel have been
:03:14. > :03:15.deployed, and there's an app to provide people with information
:03:16. > :03:27.There was a time when hooliganism was the primary security concern
:03:28. > :03:28.for any international football tournament.
:03:29. > :03:32.However, the authorities have identified five games
:03:33. > :03:43.They include England v Wales, and Germany v Poland.
:03:44. > :03:46.Next, there are the strikes and the fuel blockades.
:03:47. > :03:48.Now, these have got nothing to do with football,
:03:49. > :03:51.and everything to do with new labour laws here in France.
:03:52. > :03:55.These reforms will allow employers to more easily change
:03:56. > :04:02.the terms of employment, including playing staff after.
:04:03. > :04:05.-- the terms of employment, including laying staff off.
:04:06. > :04:08.Now, it's not clear how disruptive this will be to fans, but,
:04:09. > :04:12.By all accounts, France has a good chance of winning this tournament,
:04:13. > :04:14.but the Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema isn't
:04:15. > :04:17.He says he wasn't picked because of pressure
:04:18. > :04:20.French football authorities say it's because he's charged
:04:21. > :04:29.Either way, it's a good reminder that no one does play a discord
:04:30. > :04:36.Well, perhaps with the exception of the Dutch.
:04:37. > :04:36.Anyway, so far so happy, we're told, in the French squad.
:04:37. > :04:42.Last of all, there's the tournament itself.
:04:43. > :04:46.There are 24 teams here - eight more than last time -
:04:47. > :04:50.and it is estimated that 8 million fans will watch the matches either
:04:51. > :05:02.Looking across the River Seine to the Eiffel Tower and the fan zone
:05:03. > :05:05.behind, this looks like an event to savour, and, well, it might be.
:05:06. > :05:08.But France has work to do over the next month to make sure this
:05:09. > :05:23.Let's talk to two people about security and football. A former
:05:24. > :05:29.German goalkeeper, also played for Nottingham Forest and Wimbledon, and
:05:30. > :05:32.a freelance journalist. Welcome to both of you. Let's talk about
:05:33. > :05:38.security first. It was inevitable that it would be the central issue
:05:39. > :05:43.of this tournament. Yes, of course. There are huge precautions. If you
:05:44. > :05:47.look at the numbers, 90,000 security personnel out in force, including
:05:48. > :05:51.13,000 private security personnel. If we look down there at the Eiffel
:05:52. > :05:57.Tower, 90,000 people can be accommodated, and there is 1500
:05:58. > :06:01.security personnel there. Unprecedented numbers. A number of
:06:02. > :06:06.drills. The French are trying to say, we have your back. Even the
:06:07. > :06:09.Prime Minister has said, we cannot promise you that nothing will
:06:10. > :06:16.happen. The challenge for fans is to have a good time while all this is
:06:17. > :06:19.going on. Yes, definitely. People are worried. I see in Germany, lots
:06:20. > :06:22.of people cancelled their trips because they think something could
:06:23. > :06:29.happen. At the end of the day, I believe the security is
:06:30. > :06:34.well-prepared and I don't think we should let terrorists dictate our
:06:35. > :06:36.normal lives and football is a good way to fight against it. You are
:06:37. > :06:44.friends with the manager of the German team. He has a tough job.
:06:45. > :06:47.This is difficult. If you want the world champion title, then the
:06:48. > :06:51.pressure is not there because the European Champion title would be
:06:52. > :06:55.something good on top. The team reached a lot and looking at a rocky
:06:56. > :07:01.qualification. The team is not in the best of shape at this moment. We
:07:02. > :07:05.know that we have a tournament team which always reaches the heights
:07:06. > :07:10.when it comes to big games. That is why Germany is still one of the
:07:11. > :07:14.favourites for the tournament. In terms of security, the visible side
:07:15. > :07:17.is the 90,000 security personnel, but a lot of people say this comes
:07:18. > :07:21.down to intelligence. We haven't seen a lot of European intelligence
:07:22. > :07:27.sharing. There has been an issue in the past. Can this be fixed this
:07:28. > :07:30.time? They are trying. Cameron has said there is intelligence sharing
:07:31. > :07:34.going on. You never know what is being spoiled. There are always
:07:35. > :07:39.details trickling down, a French man caught with a lot of TNT on the
:07:40. > :07:43.board are a couple of days ago, but they seem to have it under wraps.
:07:44. > :07:47.Tell me about this game between Albania and Switzerland. You are
:07:48. > :07:52.telling me this is more interesting than England and Russia. It is a
:07:53. > :07:57.political game, because there are lots of decent Albanian players
:07:58. > :08:00.playing for Switzerland and Albanian players who were born in Switzerland
:08:01. > :08:08.playing in the Albanian team. It is the fight of brothers. It will be a
:08:09. > :08:12.big party game, I think, in Switzerland on Saturday. Thank you
:08:13. > :08:17.very much. You can follow the whole tournament through the BBC sport
:08:18. > :08:19.application and here on BBC world News. It is a nice evening to be
:08:20. > :08:29.here. In the last few minutes, president
:08:30. > :08:32.Obama has officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. He
:08:33. > :08:38.said, I don't think there has ever been someone so qualified to hold
:08:39. > :08:45.this office. He congratulated her on making history. We can bring you
:08:46. > :10:29.what he has to say. Across thousands of miles and all 50 states.
:10:30. > :10:43.There are millions of Americans, not just Democrats...
:10:44. > :11:54.Our Washington correspondent Gary O'Donoghue joins us now
:11:55. > :16:17., polling the more people who know about Bernie, the more they like
:16:18. > :16:25.him, the more they find out about Clinton. It's not the same. Away, we
:16:26. > :16:29.are terrified of a Trump presidency. We are equally terrified for a lot
:16:30. > :16:36.of the policies that Clinton is representing as well. Which Hillary.
:16:37. > :16:40.I'm sorry. May that have an influence on how she proceeds now in
:16:41. > :16:43.the campaign? The fact that Bernie Sanders has so much support, she may
:16:44. > :16:57.include some of those feelings in her campaign? Is that to me? Yes.
:16:58. > :17:02.Exactly that is the reason for Bernie to stay in it even if it's
:17:03. > :17:07.stacked against him. What were the odds of him winning 22 states a year
:17:08. > :17:12.ago. People would have said literally zero. He did it against
:17:13. > :17:17.all the odds. Everyone in the establishment, media, the Democratic
:17:18. > :17:21.Party. We want to vote for policy, not for parties. I was an
:17:22. > :17:25.independent before I knew about the New York laws that required me to
:17:26. > :17:28.switch my party allegiance over in October before the first debate
:17:29. > :17:33.happened because I was really inspired and involv, but so many
:17:34. > :17:40.people didn't know that. We have to end it there. Thank you very much.
:17:41. > :17:50.Founder of Babes for Bernie. Thank you for your time.
:17:51. > :17:53.The Israeli Army says it will deploy two additional battalions
:17:54. > :17:56.to the West Bank in response to the shooting in Tel Aviv
:17:57. > :17:57.which left four people dead and 16 injured.
:17:58. > :18:00.The Army has also revoked entry permits for more
:18:01. > :18:17.Two former British prime ministers have joined forces to urge people
:18:18. > :18:20.in the United Kingdom NOT to vote to leave the European Union.
:18:21. > :18:22.Speaking in Northern Ireland, John Major and Tony Blair said
:18:23. > :18:25.a Leave vote could undermine the peace process there -
:18:26. > :18:27.as well as raising the possibility of Scotland opting for independence.
:18:28. > :18:30.The African Union's Amisom force in Somalia says it has repelled
:18:31. > :18:33.an attack on one of its bases run by Ethiopian and Somali troops
:18:34. > :18:35.in the town of Halgan, nearly three hundred kilometres
:18:36. > :18:39.The Islamist group Al-Shabab claims it killed 60 soldiers in the attack,
:18:40. > :18:42.It's the fourth major assault on African Union bases
:18:43. > :18:46.A Belgian court has approved the extradition to France of a key
:18:47. > :18:49.suspect in both the attacks in Paris last November and the Brussels
:18:50. > :18:53.Mohamed Abrini is said to have admitted being "the man in the hat"
:18:54. > :18:58.seen on Brussels airport's CCTV moments before the bombing
:18:59. > :18:59.Investigators claim both the Brussels and Paris attackers
:19:00. > :19:06.were part of a network backed by so-called Islamic State.
:19:07. > :19:09.A French court has fined the app-based taxi firm Uber
:19:10. > :19:11.hundreds of thousands of euros for running what it called
:19:12. > :19:16.The case centred on the Uber POP ride-share service -
:19:17. > :19:17.which connects users with non-professional drivers
:19:18. > :19:24.The government had anyway banned the service because of
:19:25. > :19:27.With me with more on this story is our business
:19:28. > :19:39.What exactly did the courts say? The court is saying that it has become
:19:40. > :19:47.illegal in 2014 to run a service like this. What do Britpop was doing
:19:48. > :19:50.was using nonprofessional drivers. In 2014, it became illegal to do
:19:51. > :19:56.that. They continued until 2015 and then stopped at this service. Uber,
:19:57. > :19:59.we consider to be a service where you may well get picked up by a
:20:00. > :20:05.nonprofessional driver, but this is not OK in France, and in Germany it
:20:06. > :20:08.is the same, and Italy and Belgium and the Netherlands are moving
:20:09. > :20:13.against it. The sentinel of the cases the nonprofessional driver.
:20:14. > :20:20.The centres could be five years in prison. It was 800,000 in the end.
:20:21. > :20:25.Part of that is suspended. The question then becomes, where does
:20:26. > :20:29.this leave the progress for the sharing economy? It is obvious this
:20:30. > :20:34.is an enormous force. In some countries in the EU, less so we see
:20:35. > :20:38.it in other countries, but they don't seem ready to accept it.
:20:39. > :20:41.Almost as if legislation needs to be passed in order to make it
:20:42. > :20:46.acceptable, to make it even safe. This has often been the argument
:20:47. > :20:52.where we saw the centre of the objection in France was professional
:20:53. > :20:57.taxi drivers protesting. The difference between UberPop, the
:20:58. > :21:09.low-cost section of Tom ten man-macro -- Uber. Each is drivers
:21:10. > :21:14.who operate... That is a ride sharing service. You can also be
:21:15. > :21:17.picked up by professional drivers who are operating at that particular
:21:18. > :21:21.time. It is an application, but there has been an appetite there, if
:21:22. > :21:24.you have ever been to Paris and tried to get a cab, you understand
:21:25. > :21:28.where it comes from. There is an appetite for this type of service.
:21:29. > :21:30.The question becomes, how deregulated? The French are raising
:21:31. > :21:32.that question now. Thank you. Thousands of people are attending
:21:33. > :21:35.the Muslim funeral prayers for the boxing legend Muhammad Ali,
:21:36. > :21:38.who died last week. Prayers are being held
:21:39. > :21:40.in the Freedom Hall in Ali's Leading figures from the world
:21:41. > :21:45.of boxing and the civil rights This is ahead of the main funeral on
:21:46. > :21:56.Friday. The pastor, Rev Charles Elliott,
:21:57. > :21:59.is a family friend and tells about Ali's involvement in the US
:22:00. > :22:01.civil rights movement, and in the church's own
:22:02. > :22:03.fight against poverty. Muhammad Ali was a great supporter
:22:04. > :22:08.of my Feed The People programme. My Feed The People programme,
:22:09. > :22:10.I was going to feed "He told me, he said,
:22:11. > :22:18.feed them every day. They'll start to death,
:22:19. > :22:20.they'll starve to death if they can't eat but just two
:22:21. > :22:23.days out of the week. I'll pay for it, I'll
:22:24. > :22:29.pay for it, every day." I have been trying to give
:22:30. > :22:32.confidence, as much as I could, to Muhammad Ali's brother, Rahman,
:22:33. > :22:35.and I have been almost like his father ever
:22:36. > :22:38.since his father passed, I have a picture of Muhammad Ali
:22:39. > :22:50.at my church, where a lot of children were there
:22:51. > :22:53.and they were trying to get to him. The bodyguards were trying
:22:54. > :22:55.to keep the kids away. Let them kids come here,
:22:56. > :22:59.I want to sign every autograph Children are precious,
:23:00. > :23:05.I love children." This is me right here,
:23:06. > :23:09.looking up to him. Look at everyone else
:23:10. > :23:12.in the classroom, how excited they were, to see
:23:13. > :23:14.the champion come in. I just loved him, he was beautiful
:23:15. > :23:16.then, he's beautiful That's the reason why I think he's
:23:17. > :23:25.an idol and he's known nationwide, Every time there would be a major
:23:26. > :23:38.event involving civil rights and whatnot, Muhammad Ali would be
:23:39. > :23:48.there to share his vision. A lot of time, there
:23:49. > :23:50.was controversy, because I have always told him,
:23:51. > :23:55."If you have a pure heart and love That's who God looks at -
:23:56. > :23:59.he doesn't look at religion, We will bring you full coverage of
:24:00. > :24:11.Muhammad Ali's funeral tomorrow. Preparations are being made
:24:12. > :24:15.in Sweden for the opening of a museum showcasing one
:24:16. > :24:18.of the country's greatest exports. Yes, it's an Ikea museum -
:24:19. > :24:21.a celebration of the furniture And and as you would expect,
:24:22. > :24:28.it's all carefully planned - don't even think about
:24:29. > :24:30.deviating from the route. Located in the southern town
:24:31. > :24:33.of Almhult - where the first store opened in 1958 -
:24:34. > :24:35.the exterior has been restored Presumably they assembled
:24:36. > :24:41.all the exhibits from a flatpack - along with rather confusing
:24:42. > :24:58.instructions. Look at these remarkable pictures
:24:59. > :25:06.from Australia. It is a fish swimming inside a jellyfish. The
:25:07. > :25:10.shot was captured by Ocean photographer Tim Samuel Arthur Byron
:25:11. > :25:11.Bay in eastern Australia. Samuel photographer Tim Samuel Arthur Byron
:25:12. > :25:22.says the official was still alive and fighting.
:25:23. > :25:28.Really a pretty grim experience for that page. The breaking news we had
:25:29. > :25:32.at the start of the programme, in the last few minutes, President
:25:33. > :25:35.Obama has officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for President for
:25:36. > :25:39.the Democratic candidate for president. He said, I don't think
:25:40. > :25:45.there has ever been someone so qualified to hold this office. He
:25:46. > :25:49.congratulated her on making history. Clinton's rival Bernie Sanders met
:25:50. > :25:52.Obama earlier, but he hasn't officially conceded the race. He is
:25:53. > :25:58.staying in for now. We will bring you more on BBC News. The weather is
:25:59. > :26:13.next. Goodbye. Another glorious day up and down the
:26:14. > :26:15.UK on Thursday. Just one or two showers in the forecast. As we head
:26:16. > :26:16.into Friday,