d.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin clashes in central paris as yellow vests protesters reclaim the spotlight after the fire at notre dame cathedral he said made scores of arrests as protesters battled officers and set fires in the french capital it's the twenty third straight weekend of yellow vests demonstrations for we'll go to our correspondent on the scene in paris also coming up the gyptian czar voting in a referendum on constitutional amendments that could enable president of delta a top al sisi to stay in office until twenty thirty and bolster the role of egypt's

powerful military. and americans are marking the twentieth anniversary of the columbine high school massacre to suit still twelve of their classmates and a teacher was then the country's worst ever school shooting a reporter talked to one survivor. i'm called aspen thanks for joining us we start in paris where thousands of yellow vests demonstrators have taken to the streets once again in their long running protest against wealth inequality but it's the first since the fire at the noted on cathedral and many are angry at the millions of euros in donations earmarked for reconstruction money they say could be better spent elise arrested more than one hundred protesters after clashes broke out in the heart of the french capital. everything from not. nothing for the poor says the slogan on this protest is isla

vest. anger at the millions of euros pledged to rebuild the cathedral following monday's devastating fire while the activists say their demands for social reforms of being ignored. it's shocking given the state of the country giving to notre dame is all very well but maybe this is not the time to talk about it's not the time to do this. it's the twenty third consecutive weekend of protests against the administration of president emanuel macro actions taking place in the capital paris and across france. we're still expecting answers from the government there are democratic social and environmental emergencies for which we still have no answer. we were very young protesting even if my wife and nora are the last or learned. later violence flared

in the capitalist scooters and other vehicles were set on fire. as in previous protests the police response was forceful. tear gas and water cannon deployed to disperse the protesters. the blaze at notre dame may have united front since shock but so far it's done little to heal the deep divisions over poverty and inequality. our correspondents rebecca rader's is in paris for us where easter services are taking place rebecca there are several events taking place night in relation to the fire at notre dame tell us a little bit more about that. well carol i'm here in front of a social peace church which where an easter vigil is taking place tonight it was supposed originally planned to be take taking place in not true done obviously that

is not possible given this week's events. there is a benefit concert also happening not that far away from here hosted by one of the t.v. stations here in france there's a big it's open to any member of the public who wants to go a free benefit concert and then donations will be asked for at the end towards the reparations. now earlier rebecca you were on the streets there in paris you're tracking the able best protests that were also taking place today what was the situation like were very different scenes to the ones you're seeing behind me very different atmosphere from where i am now we saw a very violent protest again today we are we must remember that these yellow press vests excuse me protests have been going for twenty three consecutive weeks that's five months today of protests but they have waxed and waned in terms of violence

and attendance the last few weeks have seen. far less attendance but this was the first one since the not true dom and as we heard in the report people and the protesters the yellow vest people are extremely angry and they feel very let down by the fact that the country seems to have a lot of money to give to the rebuilding of a church but not to appease their demands they feel very let down so today we saw a resurgence of that earlier violence that we saw during the protests a few months ago let's talk a little bit more about those donations i mean hundreds of millions of euros came flooding in in terms of donations after that fire at notre dame on monday what's the larger discussion now about that money there and friends. well it's over a billion euros now so we've seen you know money pouring in within twenty four hours it was over eight hundred million so you know there obviously is a lot of money in the country and as we saw today the yellow the protesters are

very angry as to where that money is going and where people here in france see fit to spend that money so there was a debate about tax rebates that were offered to the excuse the wind here i'm sorry . to tax rebates that were going to people who were donating and they were getting sixty going to get sixty percent off on tax and people were angered at that saying that the money coming in is only coming in because two to the only money is only coming in so that people can get a tax rebate sort of cynical response to that money coming in so there's a it's definitely sparked a wider debate here in france about what where to spend money all right rebecca ritter's for us in paris thank you very much ali gyptian is have begun voting today in a referendum that could grant the country's authoritarian leader abdel fatah el-sisi another term in office the proposed changes to the constitution would also give the

former army general more power over the judiciary it's a move heavily criticized by international human rights groups. president abdel fattah el-sisi was among the first to cast their votes clearly a man in a hurry. just a few days earlier parliament had given the go ahead for changes to the constitution now it's up to egypt's sixty million voters to give their approval. of our president is doing a better job of looking after the country than the leaders of our neighbors. i respect him things are very stable and people are happy we have to say yes to these constitutional changes. the changes would largely benefit the president the former general would be able to stay in office until twenty thirty r.c.c. would also get to appoint the country's top judges and there would be more power

for the military. the president's plan seemed certain to be approved many voters say they're looking for security. or worried about the chaos in libya syria iraq. that's the basis on which many are deciding. the opposition is worried the changes could pave the way for a long dictatorship and already many opposition leaders are in prison state media and parliament have carried out a c.c. this far and the new constitution would mean one thing above all more power for the president. let's head to cairo now where ruth michaelson is standing by for us she's a journalist in the egyptian capital growth so as we heard it it looks likely that these constitutional changes that they will be approved if they are will that bring more stability to the country as the president says they will. well i mean it

depends what you mean by stability. there are ongoing austerity measures instituted are all present under the fact that proved very unpopular with many egyptians excluding. obviously especially polish egyptians and i saw today. egyptians who are working class neighborhoods in cairo who are being bussed to the polls and potentially open packages of food to prove they can prevail o.t. . and some would say that's not a sign of a stable regime in general a repressive regime is not necessarily a savior and that really is the challenge is east and. his opponents say that you know it's not and i have to say and power is more than just bending the rules this could allow him to become president for life beyond twenty twenty four even twenty thirty and so again you know a consistent regime with the same person always the top is not necessarily a state. this referendum is not popular with international human rights groups what

about within egypt itself how much opposition is there and who is leading that movement. well there was something called the civil democratic movement which was set up specifically to campaign against the changes the host of this referendum and it was very difficult to find anyone at the polls today who knew anything about it no campaign has heard anything from the know and that's really not who wanted trying from members of the opposition. who have said they think prevented from campaign they will prevent it from holding a protest in front in gypsy parliament they said they've been prevented from making any public statements of any kind really gets out referendum and so you know it's very difficult to be in opposition when you are unable to speak publicly. ruth michelson in cairo for us thank you very much. well today marks twenty years

since the columbine high school shooting in the u.s. when two students on for the guns and homemade explosives killed twelve of their peers and one teacher on that tuesday morning the school in littleton colorado rose to tragic fame around the world now survivors of the attack are a grownup and many have children of their own two decades later the columbine generation is still battling the trauma and hoping that the u.s. will finally impose stricter gun laws. on the big it's a routine course of many parents day school run virginia a most picking her son up comes with a particular sense of relief she's a survivor of the nine hundred ninety nine columbine high school shooting every day the mother of three waits for this moment we have children a safe back to gregory home watching her as a parent you have no idea that she's still dealing with the trauma of what happened at her high school that day really being in the out of tori i'm in and listening to

what sounded like were under some kind of attack and use them. i think coming in here how long is this can go on for who's doing this all of those questions started popping into my head and yeah i started to realize that something. really her if it please bad was happening twenty years later jamie still haunted by the shooting and it's off to mom i remember walking with a friend she was waiting to hear from her brother. but he was one mo and no one ever heard from memphis he was killed in lakewood and. i always wished that i had done something besides trying to lighten the mood because there were those were walking i was trying to like make her smile because i knew she was worried.

over and could one day be affected has that janie to campaign for tougher gun laws she was invited by how congress representative. as a guest of president trumps state of the union address cheney hope the president would tackle the issue of gun violence in schools he was left disappointed it was offensive in a way because he knows it's a problem there's no reason why we can't reinstate the assault weapons ban. there's been action before we can take action again and i think we need to forty thousand people a year are dying because of something it's guns and it's time that we tackle it from a legislative approach we can do the proactive things with mental health and we can educate the children and try to create that change of culture but that takes time legislation we can do now want to make her in the meantime only holds her children tight and hopes that they will never have to face the turmoil she's experienced

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