today France's government is on the verge of collapse the 2020 election deniers who aren't going anywhere and tackling the rise of be attacks in Japan it's Tuesday December 3rd this is reuter's world news bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes every weekday I'm Torah Oaks in Liverpool [Music] the White House has defended President Joe Biden's decision to Pardon his son Hunter the surprise move was panned by Republicans but also by some Democrats who say it threatens to undermine public trust in the rule of law a concept Biden and
his party had used to criticize president-elect Donald Trump Tesla says it's going to appeal the latest decision by a Delaware judge to reject Elon musk's $56 billion compensation package the decision comes after months of legal wrangling and January's decision by judge Kathleen McCormack that called the pay package excessive Donald Trump says there will be hell to pay in the Middle East if Hamas fails to release all the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip before his inauguration writing on social media Trump says those responsible will be hit harder than anyone has been hit in the
long and St sted History of the United States of America in the Middle East itself in Syria hundreds of Iran back Iraqi Fighters have crossed into the country to help the government fight Rebels who seized Aleppo last week but sources tell us that lebanon's Hezbollah has no plans to join them for [Music] now the French government led by prime minister Michel b is all but certain to collapse later this week with farri right National rally leader Marine Le Pen confirming that her party would vote for the leftwing coalition's no confidence bill as well as her
own Michel Rose is in Paris Michelle the government were relying on the pen support to pass their budget how did it come to this ever since the early elections of this summer it was clear that Leen could pull the trigger at any time but people thought that she would help him pass the budget because her strategy has has long been to look respectable to look like a reasonable government in Waiting what's change for her in terms of supporting the current government well in November Marin Le Pen had to go through a court case about the
use of assistance for European lawmakers in her party they went into this trial thinking it would go smoothly and there was a big surprise with the prosecutor saying they would request judges to ban her from public office with immediate effect and a lot of people think that's something that changed her plans because in March if judges decide to follow what prosecutors requested she could be banned from public office and in effect miss the next presidential election ever since her attitude and political posturing really hardened Intel CEO Pat ginger has been forced out less than four
years after taking the helm the company's bored having lost confidence in his turnaround plan the faltering American chipm Icon is now searching for a permanent replacement Tech correspondent Max churny covers the chips and AI sectors Intel's last two quarters of results have been weak at best and disastrous at worst for the June quarter Intel reported Financial results that surprised Wall Street in a in a negative way the stock dropped roughly 25% in the trading session that followed the report on top of weak financial performance Intel announced that it was going to lay off 15% of
its staff which is over 15,000 people Intel has thus far failed to produce an AI chip that has made meaningful inroads into this now critical segment in the chip industry and as a result has been unable to capture the enormous amount of Revenue that has gone mostly to Nvidia it doesn't have a new chip design for AI coming until late 2025 according to the company and on the last earnings call Pat gelsinger got asked directly what the plans are because it's not apparent what the company is going to do to participate in this massive growing
Market since winning the 2024 election Donald Trump has gone quiet on his false claims of voter fraud but the election denial movement he spawned isn't going away in fact in some parts of the country it appears to be growing stronger reporter Peter ler has been covering the movement for months so Peter the preferred candidate of the election deniers won what are they up to now well the one thing that the movement is not up to is suggesting that the 2024 election was rigged in any way shape or form those complaints have sort of gone away
they are still looking to push some pretty Stark changes in the way that Americans vote and they're looking to do it ahead of the 2026 midterm elections the 2026 Congressional elections and they insist that they're responding to legitimate concerns about election integrity and suggesting appropriate reforms but a lot of the reforms that they're pushing are aimed at dealing with problems that really don't exist or certainly have never been documented to exist and there's speculation from election officials and sort of good government groups that the real goal of these changes some at least some of these
changes that they're pushing is to sort of cement electoral advantages for the Republic party a spokesperson for Trump and the Republican National Committee say Common Sense election reforms are needed so Peter what are some of the reforms that the election deniers are trying to implement it ranges from pretty modest reforms that folks on sort of all sides agree are necessary and helpful to some more dramatic things like restricting early voting and restricting mailin voting and restricting the use of dropboxes which are all things that many many Americans have come to rely on as a way
to cast their vote more conveniently more easily or even at all in cases of people who you know might not be able to get to the polls physically on Election [Music] Day this is Northern Japan and a massive brown bear is being captured it had been roaming near a house and eating its way through corn fields to keep people safe officials turned to Hunters who lured the bear into a cage using a deer carcass as bait the threat of bear attacks in Japan is rising and Sakura morakami has been looking at how officials are responding
estimates show that there's been a gradual but steady increase in the bear population and what complicates that problem is that the areas the Bears are active are expanding and the Bears are moving closer to human inhabited areas at the Forefront of the issue is a dwindling and aging group of recreational hunters and they have the license to shoot and are often called on to call Bears when they're captured but there isn't really a nationwide approach to the problem so experts local residents and Hunters themselves are concerned about whether system is really sustainable and how they
can continue to tackle the bear problem as Japan's population declines why do officials think bears are moving into those areas now those areas have sort of depopulated and there's less of a natural buffer zone and the cycle of the ripening and flowering of fruits and nuts the main diet for Bears that's been changing so that may be driving Bears to raid crops when the usual food sources are low and S there's also been calls to deal with this human bear conflict in a way that ensures a future for the Bears right what other Solutions have
officials been looking at so the government local governments as well have a variety of programs and projects and subsidies to try and help recruit younger hunters and to kind of involve technology into warding away bears and Wildlife one of the that I talk to I developed this a robot I guess called the monster [Applause] wolf it has an infrared sensor that reacts and when a bear or any kind of wildlife passes emit these very loud sounds to Ward the bear away [Music] time now for our recommended read all about how a fuel oil smuggling network
is raking in a billion dollars a year for Iran and its proxies the operation exploits a government policy under which Iraq allocates fuel oil to asphalt plants at heavily subsidized prices and involves a network of companies groups and individuals in Iraq Iran and the Gulf States you can read more about it in the link in the Pod description and for more on any of the stories today check out reuters.com or the Reuters app don't forget to follow us on your favorite podcast player and we'll be back tomorrow with our daily headline show
