World News Tonight (ABC) - 1992-07-18

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[0:02] From ABC News, World News Saturday.

[0:06] Here's Carol Simpson. Good evening. On

[0:09] this weekend after the Democratic

[0:10] convention, candidates Clinton and Gore,

[0:13] as well as President Bush, were all

[0:15] scrambling today to try to win over the

[0:17] millions of disappointed people who had

[0:19] wanted Ross Perot to become president.

[0:22] State coordinators of Perot's aborted

[0:24] campaign met in Dallas today to figure

[0:26] out what to do next. As Linda Pettilo

[0:29] reports, the Texas billionaire has some

[0:31] new political ideas. Less than 48 hours

[0:34] after he dropped out of the race, Ross

[0:37] Perot returned to the airwaves from

[0:39] which he sprang 5 months ago, leaving

[0:41] the door open to play power broker.

[0:43] Let's organize.

[0:45] We can provide the swing vote

[0:47] to determine who gets in the House and

[0:49] Senate, and we can provide the swing

[0:50] vote to who gets to be the next

[0:52] president of the United States, and I

[0:54] will work with him night and day to get

[0:55] that done.

[0:56] >> His leverage, the prospect of a third

[0:58] party. On ABC's 20/20, Perot, who is

[1:02] already on the ballot in 24 states,

[1:04] refused to rule out being a protest

[1:07] candidate.

[1:07] >> See, they put my name on. It's not

[1:09] appropriate for me unilaterally to take

[1:11] my name off.

[1:11] >> You could.

[1:12] >> I I can legally, but that's not right.

[1:14] This afternoon, Perot's state

[1:16] coordinators from around the country

[1:18] came to Dallas to meet with him, but few

[1:20] said they would be happy with anything

[1:22] less than a Perot candidacy. We're all

[1:25] here for one purpose, to get our

[1:27] commander-in-chief back on track. But

[1:29] some question whether this is just the

[1:31] last gasp of a dying campaign. Right

[1:34] now, I think he's trying to make the

[1:36] best of it. Perot is trying to suggest

[1:38] to his volunteers that he didn't just

[1:40] leave them in the lurch, and he's trying

[1:42] to rationalize for himself taking it

[1:44] this far right to the brink and drawing

[1:46] back.

[1:47] The question now is, is Ross Perot

[1:49] taking it to the brink again? His state

[1:51] coordinators just came out from a 2 and

[1:53] 1/2 hour meeting with Perot. As a result

[1:56] of this meeting, they're going to

[1:57] continue to put him on the ballot in all

[1:59] 50 states, and Perot has agreed to

[2:01] provide financial support for that

[2:03] effort. I asked one state coordinator,

[2:05] "Did you mention the word draft?" He

[2:07] said, "Yes." I said, "What was Perot's

[2:09] response?" He said, "He smiled." Carol?

[2:12] Linda, what does it all mean? I'm

[2:14] confused. Are you confused as to what

[2:16] this may mean? The question for Perot,

[2:18] Carol, is just that, because I think a

[2:20] lot of voters may say he's playing cat

[2:21] and mouse games with us. And will this

[2:23] fly with all but the most loyal of Perot

[2:26] followers? That's his challenge. So, he

[2:29] is not going to be leaving the political

[2:31] stage, at least for a while. So, it

[2:34] would seem it's all the trappings of a

[2:36] campaign. They came out talking about

[2:37] having a convention, issuing a platform,

[2:40] even running ads if need be. They said

[2:42] Perot said he would basically do

[2:44] whatever they want. In a sense, he has

[2:46] returned to where he was 5 months ago.

[2:49] He told them he was quite uncomfortable

[2:50] with the political professionals. He's

[2:52] much more comfortable having this be the

[2:55] original grassroots movement. But can he

[2:57] sustain interest with the majority of

[2:59] the voters without declaring his

[3:00] candidacy is the big question.

[3:02] Linda, Mr. Perot may not be happy about

[3:04] some of the bad press he's getting for

[3:06] dropping out of the race. We have the

[3:08] cover of next week's issue of Newsweek

[3:10] magazine, and it labels him a quitter.

[3:13] Is that the way uh supporters other than

[3:15] the state coordinators coordinators are

[3:17] still feeling about him, that he's

[3:18] abandoned them?

[3:20] Well, the headlines have said everything

[3:21] from quitter to wimp, as as we've seen.

[3:23] Uh the most recent poll shows that a

[3:25] quarter of the public would be willing

[3:28] to vote for Perot if he were on their

[3:30] ballot, even if he weren't running. Now,

[3:32] if he doesn't get the publicity he got

[3:34] as an almost official candidate, that

[3:36] may change. It's a long way to election

[3:37] day. Thank you, Linda. The story's far

[3:40] from over. Linda Pettilo reporting from

[3:42] Dallas. In San Diego, Perot supporters

[3:45] have decided what to do with what was to

[3:47] have been their campaign headquarters.

[3:49] They opened it today as Town Hall

[3:51] Center, a place to get voter

[3:53] registration materials and learn how to

[3:56] make your vote count.

[3:58] The new Democratic ticket continued its

[4:00] campaign bus tour today through

[4:01] Pennsylvania. ABC's Ron Claiborne caught

[4:04] up with them at a truck stop in

[4:06] Carlisle.

[4:09] The All American Truck Stop Diner in

[4:11] Carlisle, Bill Clinton talked about

[4:12] speed limits and interstate weight

[4:14] regulations with truck drivers, just one

[4:16] of the boys.

[4:17] >> Are there any trucking issues, any

[4:18] national issues that I we need to know

[4:20] about? The kinds of people Clinton is

[4:22] trying to reach on this trip, working

[4:24] class, middle class, suburban voters,

[4:26] many of whom voted for Reagan and Bush.

[4:29] Clinton was keeping his message simple.

[4:32] If you are tired

[4:33] of the status quo, if you're tired of

[4:35] seeing your country go downhill, if you

[4:37] still believe America is the greatest

[4:39] country in the world, you join with us,

[4:41] work with us, and win with us, and we'll

[4:44] give you your country back.

[4:45] >> It's a message designed to appeal not

[4:47] just to disenchanted Democrats and

[4:48] Republicans, but to former supporters of

[4:50] Ross Perot, who are now left stranded

[4:52] when he refused to run. At every stop on

[4:55] his bus tour, Clinton insisted he had

[4:56] found Perot backers who have now come

[4:58] over to his side. In that last crowd, I

[5:01] had two more people come up and say, "I

[5:03] was for Perot, but we're going to

[5:04] support you." And in fact, there are

[5:05] both Perot people and turned-off

[5:07] Republicans in the cheering crowds that

[5:09] meet him at each campaign appearance.

[5:12] I'm a Republican, but we're going to

[5:13] work for you. I probably will vote for

[5:16] uh Bill Clinton. And you're a

[5:17] Republican? I'm a Republican. That's

[5:19] correct. I've been pretty unhappy of

[5:21] late, so I've been a Perot supporter,

[5:24] and felt quite disappointed when he

[5:26] pulled out of the election.

[5:28] >> And now? Uh well, I'm wearing the

[5:29] Clinton tag today. I was more inclined

[5:31] to vote for Bush until the other night

[5:33] when I heard the speech, and I was very

[5:34] impressed with the speech, and and maybe

[5:36] a Clinton supporter. The Clinton-Gore

[5:38] bus tour will cover 1,000 miles from New

[5:40] Jersey to Missouri, in all eight key

[5:43] traditionally Republican states where

[5:45] Ross Perot had been strong, and where

[5:47] Bill Clinton now thinks he can and must

[5:50] win.

[5:51] Ron Claiborne, ABC News, on the road

[5:53] with the Clinton campaign.

[5:55] His campaign shaken by the latest poll

[5:57] results, President Bush made an

[5:59] appearance today before an audience

[6:00] guaranteed to give him a hero's welcome.

[6:03] White House correspondent Brit Hume was

[6:05] there.

[6:06] At Brigham Young University in staunchly

[6:09] conservative and Republican Utah, the

[6:11] president found today something he's

[6:13] rarely seen this rocky political year, a

[6:15] large and cheering crowd, some 15,000

[6:18] strong.

[6:20] And for a time, Mr. Bush also seemed to

[6:22] find his voice as a campaigner as he

[6:24] commented for the first time on the

[6:25] Democratic convention. He said he hadn't

[6:27] seen it, but he'd read about it,

[6:29] particularly the comment attributed to

[6:31] George McGovern. He called this year's

[6:33] Democratic ticket

[6:34] a Trojan horse.

[6:37] And he said, and I quote, "They're much

[6:39] more liberal underneath, and will prove

[6:42] it when they're elected." Now, I know

[6:45] I've never said this publicly,

[6:47] but one, they won't be elected, and

[6:49] George McGovern is an incredibly

[6:51] insightful man.

[6:54] Once again today, he tried to identify

[6:56] himself with the now leaderless legions

[6:58] who had backed Ross Perot. Ross Perot's

[7:01] supporters believe in the same

[7:02] principles in which I believe, about

[7:05] cutting the size of government, about

[7:07] letting parents choose their kids'

[7:08] daycare and high schools. And most of

[7:11] all, we agree about the need to break

[7:13] the deadlock in Washington, D.C.

[7:18] Mr. Bush provided a hint of how he will

[7:19] campaign as the man to do that. He will,

[7:22] of course, call for a Republican

[7:23] Congress, but that's a long shot. So, it

[7:25] appears he will also put it this way.

[7:28] You give me a Congress

[7:30] that shares my values and your values,

[7:34] and you'd see this system not just

[7:36] shaken, but rattled, and even rolled.

[7:41] Senior Bush political advisers said this

[7:43] was his best event yet, and it seemed to

[7:45] be, certainly on this trip. But they

[7:47] also said they never expected him to be

[7:49] this far behind, even in the aftermath

[7:52] of the Democrats' convention.

[7:53] Brit Hume, ABC News, Salt Lake City.

[7:57] Ross Perot's withdrawal and its impact

[7:59] on the presidential race will be the

[8:00] topic tomorrow on This Week with David

[8:02] Brinkley. Guests will include former

[8:04] Perot campaign manager Ed Rollins and

[8:07] officials of both the Bush and Clinton

[8:09] campaigns.

[8:10] Coming up, troubling new evidence about

[8:12] doctors and AIDS patients. And later in

[8:15] this broadcast, how so-called ethnic

[8:18] cleansing has launched Europe's biggest

[8:20] flow of refugees since World War II.

[8:23] And why undercover cops in Paris are

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[9:41] Delta Airlines apparently has saved an

[9:44] AIDS research project involving the U.S.

[9:46] Army and St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa,

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[9:51] HIV-infected blood samples be flown

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[10:25] This year's International Conference on

[10:27] AIDS opens tomorrow in Amsterdam.

[10:30] All next week, 10,000 AIDS experts from

[10:33] around the world will examine the

[10:35] struggle against the disease, which now

[10:37] threatens to become a global epidemic.

[10:40] The news may be somewhat better for the

[10:41] United States, as George Strait reports.

[10:45] The man responsible for keeping track of

[10:47] the AIDS epidemic in the US announced,

[10:49] sometime this year, the number of

[10:51] Americans with AIDS will exceed a

[10:53] quarter of a million.

[10:55] Dr. James Curran says the epidemic is

[10:57] slowing down, but by the end of the

[10:59] year, 2 million Americans will be

[11:01] infected with the virus that causes

[11:03] AIDS. So, while the number of AIDS cases

[11:07] are leveling off, the number of people

[11:08] who are living with AIDS and living with

[11:10] immune suppression is increasing at a

[11:12] faster rate. Another disturbing study

[11:15] released today revealed that more US

[11:18] doctors just out of medical school were

[11:20] willing to turn their backs on AIDS

[11:22] patients than their counterparts in

[11:24] Canada or France. Residents in the US

[11:27] consistently expressed more reluctance

[11:30] than those in France or in Canada uh to

[11:33] treat persons with AIDS and those at

[11:35] risk. Dr. Roger Eamonn takes care of

[11:38] AIDS patients, but understands doctors

[11:41] who won't. I think it's the right of the

[11:43] physician to choose

[11:46] who he wants to treat or not. Anyone who

[11:48] would refuse to treat an AIDS patient is

[11:51] really operating from

[11:53] a fear and also a lack of education

[11:55] about the disease.

[11:57] The study's author says he understands

[11:59] how American doctors can get caught up

[12:01] in the misinformation and fear about

[12:03] AIDS rampant in the US. I think it's

[12:05] unrealistic to think that doctors are

[12:08] going to be saints and are going to

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[12:12] in the society. The tragedy is as more

[12:15] AIDS patients need more help, the number

[12:18] of American doctors willing to help is

[12:20] becoming limited.

[12:22] George Strait, ABC News, Amsterdam.

[12:25] In other news today, Army doctors in

[12:27] Indiana announced the results of a study

[12:29] of Persian Gulf War veterans today. And

[12:32] they said stress is the most likely

[12:34] cause of a variety of mysterious

[12:36] ailments plaguing Gulf veterans. Their

[12:39] complaints include fatigue, hair loss,

[12:42] bleeding gums, and aching joints.

[12:45] There's further evidence that the

[12:46] military is more sensitive toward the

[12:48] issue of sexual harassment. The planned

[12:51] promotions of two admirals who were

[12:53] linked to incidents of sexual misconduct

[12:56] have been canceled.

[12:57] 30 boats carrying Cuban exiles motored

[13:00] from Florida to the waters just off

[13:02] Havana today to protest, as they do each

[13:05] year, Fidel Castro's communist rule.

[13:08] Participants in the so-called Cuban

[13:10] Freedom Flotilla tossed wreaths and

[13:13] wooden crosses into the sea just outside

[13:16] Cuba's territorial waters.

[13:18] In a moment, the victims of ethnic

[13:20] cleansing in what used to be Yugoslavia.

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[15:28] News from overseas today. In Sarajevo, a

[15:31] convoy carrying nearly 100 children,

[15:34] many of them sick or physically

[15:36] handicapped, left the war-ravaged city

[15:38] for relative safety in Croatia.

[15:41] Meanwhile, Serbia's President Milosevic

[15:44] met with British Foreign Secretary

[15:46] Douglas Hurd and promised to throw his

[15:48] full weight behind a newly negotiated

[15:50] ceasefire that's supposed to take effect

[15:52] tomorrow.

[15:53] All the previous ceasefire accords have

[15:55] had little effect. If this one should

[15:58] succeed in ending the fighting, peace

[16:00] will come too late for thousands of

[16:01] people who have already fled.

[16:04] The civil war in what used to be

[16:05] Yugoslavia has generated Europe's

[16:07] biggest flow of refugees since World War

[16:09] II.

[16:10] As Mark Litke reports, many have been

[16:12] targeted because of their ethnic

[16:14] backgrounds or religious beliefs.

[16:19] 64-year-old Mujik Magbula can barely

[16:22] comprehend what has happened to her. "It

[16:24] was such a good life," she cries. "Now,

[16:27] there is nothing." She and a thousand

[16:29] other Muslims were forced to leave their

[16:31] village in Bosnia earlier this month.

[16:34] "It was the Serbs," they say, "our

[16:36] neighbors, people we knew well." They

[16:38] were told to leave or they would be

[16:40] shot. Being Muslim was their only crime.

[16:43] They fled across the border into Serbia,

[16:45] where they are now being housed in a

[16:47] gymnasium by the Serbian Red Cross.

[16:50] They can still see their former village

[16:52] in the distance.

[16:54] 7 km. At night, they see the lights in

[16:56] their homes turned on by the new

[16:58] occupants.

[17:00] It is called ethnic cleansing, and these

[17:03] are its victims. Innocent children, the

[17:05] elderly and the crippled, entire

[17:08] families.

[17:09] As we listen to their stories, a Serbian

[17:11] Red Cross official became increasingly

[17:13] agitated. She claims these people were

[17:16] not forced out of their homes, that they

[17:18] left voluntarily because Bosnian

[17:20] authorities could not ensure their

[17:22] safety.

[17:23] She accused the foreign media of blaming

[17:25] all atrocities on Serbia, when Serbs

[17:28] were victims, too. To prove her point,

[17:31] she led us to a smaller group of

[17:32] refugees in a separate room.

[17:34] Serbs who were forced out of their

[17:36] villages.

[17:38] Milosh Majderovic says his house was

[17:41] burned down, his son murdered by Bosnian

[17:44] Muslims.

[17:45] In fact, there has been ethnic cleansing

[17:47] in every one of Yugoslavia's former

[17:49] republics. The victims are from every

[17:52] ethnic group. All are frightened and

[17:55] bewildered.

[17:57] In this refugee center, not one could

[17:59] explain how this all happened, how their

[18:01] neighbors became their mortal enemies.

[18:04] But they all know, Serb and Muslim

[18:06] alike, is that unless someone can

[18:08] guarantee their safety, none of them can

[18:11] ever go home again.

[18:13] Mark Litke, ABC News, Loznica, Serbia.

[18:18] Coming up next, sitting in for the

[18:20] vacationing Ray Gandolf is John Snyder

[18:22] with today's sports news. What's on the

[18:24] docket tonight, John? Well, Carol

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[20:30] don't. Then Phillips' relieves

[20:32] constipation overnight. I think we

[20:34] should throw a party. I know what you'd

[20:36] serve.

[20:41] Now, let's go to John Snyder in New York

[20:42] with sports. John?

[20:44] Thank you, Carol. At the British Open,

[20:45] the leader after three rounds is a man

[20:47] who celebrated his 35th birthday by

[20:49] building a four-shot lead. At the

[20:52] Muirfield course in Scotland, Nick

[20:53] Faldo, who won on the same course 5

[20:55] years ago, shot a 2-under par 69. He

[20:57] leads two golfers by four shots. One of

[20:59] those in second place is American John

[21:01] Cook, who has the day's best reaction,

[21:03] falling down after a chipping eagle. He

[21:05] is at 10-under par 203, along with

[21:08] another American, Steve Pate, who

[21:09] birdied six of the first 12 holes, but

[21:11] he fell back near the end. He and Cook

[21:13] and everyone else chasing Nick Faldo.

[21:16] In baseball, Boston was a 1-nothing

[21:17] winner at Minnesota, with Roger Clemens

[21:19] looking as he does much of the time,

[21:21] almost unhittable. A two-hitter with

[21:22] five strikeouts, Clemens is now 10 and

[21:25] 6.

[21:26] In horse racing, the Suburban Handicap,

[21:27] run at the Belmont track here in New

[21:29] York, the winner in a great stretch run

[21:30] was Pleasant Tap, just ahead of last

[21:33] year's Kentucky Derby winner, Strike the

[21:34] Gold. The time for a mile and a quarter,

[21:37] 2 minutes and a fifth. Pleasant Tap will

[21:39] be one of the favorites for the

[21:40] Breeders' Cup coming up in the fall.

[21:42] Well, still on the subject of horse

[21:44] racing, I talked recently with one of

[21:45] the most successful men in the sport,

[21:47] who has brought home the most winners in

[21:48] history. He doesn't ride the horses, he

[21:51] drives them.

[21:53] We'll see what happen. We'll play by

[21:54] ear.

[21:57] I didn't know that the one day I'd be

[21:59] recognized as a world champion. All I

[22:01] wanted to know I wanted to drive horses

[22:03] and drive a lot of them. Hear me lose.

[22:05] Nearly 70,000 times, Herve Filion has

[22:08] taken a horse onto a track. Over 13,000

[22:11] times, he has come home a winner.

[22:13] His victory total is by far the most in

[22:16] harness racing history. I did something

[22:18] that I love and I enjoy and getting paid

[22:20] for. It's not like you go on 9:00 to

[22:22] 5:00 because

[22:23] you don't know what's going to happen

[22:25] out there. It's always a challenge. It

[22:27] doesn't get dull. He won his first race

[22:29] 39 years ago. Since then, his horses

[22:32] have won over $77 million.

[22:34] His share of that, over 4 million.

[22:37] But even the best can't win them all. On

[22:39] this night, he finished last a couple of

[22:41] times. Sometimes the driver is willing

[22:43] and the horse is weak. He was not strong

[22:45] at all tonight. So, you better check.

[22:47] He's got to be sick compared to the race

[22:48] the way you race last week, you know? He

[22:50] is fond of saying he is only along for

[22:52] the ride. The horse does all the work.

[22:54] Racing people know better.

[22:56] Walter Case Jr. is one of the country's

[22:58] best drivers. He's known Filion for 10

[23:00] years. He's got a great set of hands.

[23:02] He's very light-handed, but he's very

[23:04] smart out there. He just He's very

[23:06] quick. He You know, he thinks He's

[23:08] always a step ahead of you all the time.

[23:10] On the far outside, for Herve, and

[23:13] that's all you got to say, Colonel.

[23:14] Filion's work schedule may be more

[23:16] impressive than his records. Several

[23:18] months of the year, he wins races during

[23:20] the day at a New Jersey track before

[23:22] commuting 75 miles back to the track in

[23:24] New York. He often drives 90 races per

[23:27] week. Well, I feel it's not work for me.

[23:29] People will say I'm a workaholic and all

[23:31] that. I drive to track. To me, it's not

[23:33] work. It's time-consuming, but race is

[23:36] over. I don't bring the races home and I

[23:38] don't bring home to the races.

[23:39] >> On the inside, Justin A few weeks ago,

[23:42] with a horse called Justin Keen, he set

[23:43] a track record.

[23:45] At age 52, he is still one of the best

[23:47] in a sport where he set the standard.

[23:49] Keen in front.

[23:54] The only race I can win is the one I'm

[23:56] watching. I feel if I go behind the gate

[23:59] and there in the race, I can win the

[24:01] race.

[24:03] Filion won a few more races this week.

[24:04] He now has a total of 13,561

[24:08] victories and counting. Carol?

[24:10] Thanks, John. When we come back, why

[24:12] Paris is spending millions of dollars to

[24:15] make the city streets a little safer to

[24:17] walk.

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[25:23] I'm David Brinkley. On Sunday, members

[25:25] of Ross Perot's former staff, Ed

[25:27] Rollins, Hamilton Jordan, with Perot

[25:29] out, how will this affect the Bush and

[25:31] Clinton campaigns? Sunday.

[25:35] Finally tonight, no matter what city

[25:36] you're in, there are plenty of reasons

[25:38] to be on your toes when you walk city

[25:40] streets. Officials in Paris have taken a

[25:42] bold new step to make their streets safe

[25:44] for pedestrians, and ABC's Jim Bitterman

[25:47] has the scoop.

[25:49] They are the Starsky and Hutch of the

[25:51] sanitary police, inspectors of

[25:54] excrement.

[25:55] Part of a squad of 50 plainclothes

[25:57] officers out there blending in with the

[25:59] general public right up to the moment

[26:01] when somebody's dog steps out of line

[26:03] and does his business on a sidewalk.

[26:06] And then, dog and master are pulled over

[26:08] for a ticket, which can cost up to $250.

[26:12] The city of Paris, it seems, has had

[26:14] enough of dog owners with piggy public

[26:16] manners. I think that people in Paris

[26:20] are fed up of the dog waste. So,

[26:23] when we did this campaign, we had a lot

[26:26] of people were very pleased of this

[26:28] campaign. It's not like the problem is a

[26:31] new one. The city's best friends deposit

[26:34] 10 tons of waste on Paris streets every

[26:36] single day.

[26:39] Already, Paris spends well over $8

[26:41] million a year trying to keep up with

[26:43] the dogs.

[26:45] Every morning, with the precision of a

[26:47] military campaign, motorized patrols of

[26:49] mobile vacuum cleaners hit the pavement

[26:51] in search of wayward waste.

[26:54] But it's an exercise in tail-chasing,

[26:56] because everyone here knows that once a

[26:58] sidewalk is clean, a four-legged food

[27:01] processor cannot be far behind. As happy

[27:04] as many here might be to see Paris crack

[27:06] down on dog waste, France's leading

[27:08] animal campaigner is not. One-time

[27:11] actress Brigitte Bardot says the

[27:13] campaign will be unfair to dogs.

[27:16] But the point, those in favor of the new

[27:18] law say, is to put the bite not on dogs,

[27:21] but on dog owners.

[27:23] Jim Bitterman, ABC News, Paris.