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a new wave of washing air strikes. air defenses lit up the skies over cave this morning. and i don't agree with flatter marapoo trans regime, which instigated this war against ukrainians were like brothers to us. we'll meet a russian student who fled house arrest as well as her own country, after becoming another victim of the kremlin cracked down on descent and a top you way. the official says in sudan, warring generals have agreed to send delegates to potential peace talks. ah, i'm bring gov to our viewers watching on p b s in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin this monday in france with a fresh wave of go against president emmanuel mack owens plans to change the

country's pension system. hundreds of thousands joined the traditional made a demonstrations today to condemn the plan, which would see the minimum retirement age raised by 2 years to the age of $64.00. the country's interior minister says that more than $100.00 police officers were injured in clashes with protesters across the country. hussies with police smashed windows. paris is once again alight as angry people protest unpopular plans to pitch the minimum retirement age to $64.00. those marching here, see this is a made a comb for worker's rights. whenever we don't want to die working, we want to live and see our children and grandchildren grow up and enjoy it because we'll have worked all our lives. so see, i'm retired and i'm disgusted. i went there doing that. he saw clump van young people, if a variable them for us to be here. because our generation that with the,

for the consequences of this policy, hundreds of thousands turned out across the country. much of the frustration here is directed towards president emanuel macro. um, he says the reform is needed to keep the pension system financially viable. but the french leaders approval ratings have plummeted. and miss analyst says there's only one winner here, but it's all yellow. pearl is okay. looking at the opinion, pulls and foot protection or sadness, all tends to benefit populous, extreme right party. so that's like the national relief because they symbolize anger towards an annual mccomb calling. there has never been such a swift drop in a french president's popularity handle. so can, and that's what's problematic, what because he has 4 years left in power until be complicated for him to pass any new form of self as soon rid of a form to pension law is now moving ahead and some think this made a mobilization is the movement last gasp after multiple nationwide strikes. but

these parisians say they'll keep up the pressure. and the bullet from this political battle may be felt for years to come. a trade unions or promising to keep the pro church going. i asked are corresponded in paris. chrissy burch hard to tell us about what's happening they are now. the square behind me is where this protest all began. and you can see there is a statue in the middle of that square. and protesters have decked it out with a t shirt which says the words, a mac ho demi, sure, that means macros resign. and that was the message from many of the people who turned out to march, who i spoke to you today. some of them trade union members who are unhappy with the content of this pension reform law and with the way that it was passed. but of course some of those who turned out did also end up clashing with police. and there was a descent into violence in some parts of the city and in some parts of france. no,

we know, according to the interior ministry, that's more than 200 people have been detained. more than a 100 police officers have been injured and the french prime minister has slammed that violence on the side lays of these made protests as unacceptable. rosie on today may 1st may day is a traditional day of workers protester across much of europe and around much of the world is today's turn out. we're talking about numbers here is it's significantly bigger. well, according to the police here in paris, there was more than a 100000 people. if you ask the trade unions, they say it was more like 500000. but certainly from what i witnessed the streets were fool, i could see demonstrators in all directions. that, of course, usually may day a sort of celebration of workers' rights. but it wasn't so much of a festive mood here to day. instead, there was a lot of frustration and baker political questions looming over the whole affair. on the one hand, will this be the last of this news that we've seen?

lots of strikes already across the nation. and that's not what protest her say. they say they'll keep turning out and secondly, well, what's the longer term, political ramifications of all this resentment for french president micron who remains in office, but who as we heard, whose popularity ratings have plummeted in one political analysts who we spoke to describe this to me really, as note 8 political impasse in france. it's looking like a political impasse in which you have to keep in mind that president micron he doesn't have to run for reelection. he's in his 2nd and final term, but he's got another. what for years has he used up all of his political capital on this one issue? i mean, will he be able to, you know, believe the country and govern for the next 4 years? well listen, i was here in paris when french president macro won his 2nd term and he did

advertise. this is one of his missions to reform this labyrinthine pension system. but of course, it has proved entirely unpopular and we've seen calls for his resignation. one protesters said to me, he simply harrigan and selfish, and he doesn't listen to any one. of course, those are allegations, he rejects micron safe. these reforms are absolutely needed. francis population is aging. and of course, there are other countries in europe where the pension age is already higher than 60, for the age, which the pension of retirement will be raised to here in france, i spoke to one processor who said, well, we simply don't care what it's like in other countries we want our rights to be maintained here, that women who we heard from you said we want to be able to see our grandchildren and grow old and to be able to leave more. so what it looks like here is really, i kind of fractured social contractor, at least that's what we're hearing from the demonstrators, but it certainly will make for a tricky time ahead for president micron. is rosie burton with the latest and i can paris mostly. thank you. we're now to the war in you cream. russia

fired another barrage of missiles on monday. targeting cities across the country keep serves with its air defenses. intercepted most of the rockets and says, however, 34 people were injured now the strikes, they're expected to continue. a counterfeited by ukrainian forces could begin at any moment. this eastern euclidean city of pablo had arg, was struck twice by russia miss isles. overnight and it strikes destroyed dozens of private houses and is parked a mess of fire. but also to the speech. when i saw another spark, i thought we should get out of the house. we were in the hallway putting on our shoes when both doors were smashed by the explosions. then there was a fire. i ran outside and saw that the grass was destroyed. everything was on fire

glass shots everywhere. had we been outside, we would have been killed as you wish to not one not move you offish and see dozens, including children for wounded and recent attacks. many residents are still frightened. we took a, we scheduled good door, we rushed the hallway and lay on the floor at the guy, a walnut, and then the explosion waved, twisted the door itself, dawn. we would have been trapped here if we stayed for 5 more seconds. then there were more explosion, ways. i don't know what happened to the door, but it wasn't easy to get inside the room. we did not sleep at night and in the morning, my child will need psychological help. it's harder. in the morning air defense dresser fire lit up these guys or will give, what did you get in?

in military said it, shut down 15 of the 18 cruise missiles fired across the country. it's the latest wave of russian air strikes and many places far from the front lines are being targeted across ukraine. sla correspondent, he currently is in keep he has more on mondays attacks. well, as he mentioned that no casualties in care, but certainly a lot more activity. ill. why did yoga fee than just give will the $30.00 people wounded in the east, the country near the stiff new pro? it's believe they live near an industrial facility and that this was kind of collateral damage, people suffering from smoking relation and also from the explosion windows being blown out of their frames. there was a more recently in recent hours we've heard more detail about other attacks, other missiles in the west, the country, there's a 2 middle se lenient sky. so it does seem like there is some kind of logic behind these attacks, but it does certainly comes as

a shock after basically the best part of 2 months without attacks beyond the front lines. and people here and key of now very coach the fact that those arid warnings all very serious indeed those dw nick heartily their reporting from keep rushes cracked down on the opponents of it's war in ukraine has been well documented. but lately, the kremlin has stepped up its efforts to stifle criticism, leading towards summer, calling the widest campaign of repression since the soviet union. and recent targets have included students out of her shackles and on the run. alissa crypt sylva gets goose bumps when she thinks back to the moment she freed herself from house arrest and fled from russia to europe. in both directions could have been right before i escaped. i was afraid because stupid thoughts kept coming into my head. like what if this doesn't

work and a rest me would i have to run for miles through the forest dylan yet. but she succeeded. alyssa was able to enter the e u to lithuania. she knows if her escape attempt had failed. she would likely be in prison by now. alyssa had been waiting under house arrest for the courts. verdict. the charges was serious, discrediting the russian army, and justifying terrorism. her crimes handing out and he wore flyers and condemning the war in ukraine in a private chat with her fellow university students. my. i would advise that was my protest with the dog and i chose the most harmless methods for it. well, at least that's what i thought. yeah, i don't agree with vladimir putin regime which instigated this war against

ukrainians who are like brothers to us. radical of latin edward alyssa is one of the almost 20000 russians who have been punished for their anti war stance. the most prominent among them is opposition leader vladimir kara morsa, who strongly criticized putin and publicly denounced the war in ukraine. another russian was sentenced to 2 years in prison because his daughter drew an anti war picture like alyssa, he also tried to flee russia, but he was caught and arrested. a careless joke or critical post is all it takes to get a knock on the door from the secret service, the fs, b, and possibly end up behind bars. the russian parliament has also tightened

a law to make it more difficult for young men to avoid being conscripted. it's made it trickier to leave the country like eliezer did. she believes repression in russia will get even worse because the kremlin fears its own citizens rose with appeal at that. what if all the young women who were against a war had taken to the streets and gone to the kremlin? yeah, it's clear that people must be intimidated because of this pretty class and that suits to russian regime very well at the moment. at his creditor in one aliases. dream is to become a journalist in another free or russia, perhaps that wouldn't have to remain a dream. or earlier i spoke with vladimir, a sheer coff director of the anti corruption foundation. as an in geo, that was founded by the jailed russian opposition leader alexis in of all the i

asked him is dissent dead in proteins, russia? since the start of this brutal aggression of russia against ukraine and number of repressive laws has been put in place by russian government that make it very dangerous for people to criticize the. busy war that russia has unleashed, ah, they protest that happened over the 1st weeks of invasion have faded out. and now we see ridiculous are ridiculous verdicts and people can get our fines or even jails for anti. busy war or some social media, or just for going out to the streets with blank sheets of paper. bmo, the european union has a strike, a deal to resume in boards of ukrainian agricultural products. now, european countries bordering ukraine. they were torn between helping their neighbor

as well as protecting their own farmers. and that led some of them to introduce agricultural import bands. ah, the e, you hate to keep the grain trucks from ukraine on the go. and europe, united ukraine had long been a big agricultural exporter. but russia's invasion changed that with its black see ports partly blocked. ukraine got their products to market, surround the world overland through europe, and the e. u wave tariffs on ukrainian goods to help but farm as nice in europe complained that they were being left with mountains of unsold produce and that the availability of cheaper ukrainian grains damaged bad business.

poland normally a staunch ally of ukraine, even banned imports unilaterally, leaving long lines of ukrainian trucks stuck out the border. in april, you cranes foreign ministry called the restrictions on its grain exports via the e. you quote, categorically, unacceptable. the agreement aims to let ukrainian agricultural products travel through the e u, but allow poland, romania, bulgaria, slovakia, and hungary to impose internal temporary restrictions on some grain. plus it gives the option to restrict more produce and future. at the same time it lets ukrainian goods into the e u without tariffs for another year. mister supposed took this one you. i think this is a success for the european union, but it was possible to reach a compromise solution and get out of this crisis which seemed to be potentially

dangerous economically. and also politically the issue that compromise solution. may he get the truck sneezing again? and e u lead is, hey, pitt will maintain the image of a year at united in its support, full ukraine. we're here to look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. us regulators over the weekend to control of the troubled 1st republic bank and then sold it to j. p. morgan chase 1st republic. at assets worth about $230000000000.00. it had more than a $100000000000.00 in deposit. this is the 2nd largest retail bang to go wonder and us history. in the us of the former model e gene carol returned to the witness stand today and her rape case against former president donald trump. the trial resumed after the judge denied a request by trump's attorney for a miss trial. due to the judges alleged bias,

trump is accused of raping carroll in a department store dressing room in 1996 nurses in the u. k. or striking in an ongoing dispute, overpaid it comes after union members rejected the offer of a 5 percent pay rates. now this latest action is the 1st to hit critical services including intensive care units, as well as units giving chemotherapy for gary is chief prosecutor, have survived an assassination attempt unharmed. officials say that his convoy was on its way to sophia. when a bomb exploded by the side of the road, protesters have accused him of failing to tackle corruption, if called for his resignation. the united nations top official in sudan says that the country's warring generals have agreed to send representatives to potential

negotiations. fork repaired has says that the talks could be held in saudi arabia, and that they would focus 1st on establishing a durable truce. clashes are still being reported in the capital cartoon, despite in agreement between rival military forces to extend a ceasefire. 8 tons of medical supplies, enough to treat over a 1000 injured people. i hope this will be only the 1st of a number of batches that will come will be extremely crucial for the hospital to the hospitals to be able to cater for the needs of thousands of people that are flocking to their doors and waiting to get medical assistance but the conflict shows no sign of easing. shortly after the warring parties agreed to a 72 hour truce, violence broke out again in the capital her tomb. while foreign governments are

scrambling to evacuate their nationals, thousands of sudanese, i seeking refuge in neighboring countries. but many have no choice but to hide in their homes amid rapidly deteriorating conditions. can we hear the sounds of artillery it can fall in the street in front? all the one behind continued magneer. shall we have to sleep on the floor. there is no water, electricity, there is no food, nothing more in working for her. in addition to food shortages and yos, warren, that sedans health care system is on the brink of collapse or nike for all lee, and get many working and trained mines in the health care sector of fleeing sudan. there is a withdrawal of many engineers and non ingenious due to direct attacks. by all means, it's a disaster, like imagine more by sure, either abilene fiarty in one of them or even before the fighting of octed

a 3rd of should a nice were dependent on some form of humanitarian assistance. now fears are growing that a prolonged conflict could spread to the broader region. it has suffered multiple conflict in the past decade and climate change has left its deadly mark as well. with severe drought and one of the world's worst food insecurity, crisis. ha, as the country moves deeper into crisis, sudanese people abroad are calling for international action to end the violence. oyster sudan analyst eric reeves about these mediation efforts in beer chances of success. very low. i think it's almost impossible to imagine general and a messy leader of the rabbit sport forces meeting or even agreeing on a setting for talks, a setting meeting,

not just a country, but the terms under which negotiations will take place. both men, it seems to me are in this fight to the end and to the end of, of what the, the, the entire country and the civilian population that we know that many sudanese, there are fleeing to neighboring countries such as chad, i mean are these neighbors and i'm thinking of eritrea, ethiopia, south sudan, can they cope with, you know, the arrivals of refugees? not really. chad in particular, already has almost $400000.00 for a refugee is overwhelmingly, from the non eric tribes of are for the disintegration of car to them. and that may be what we're witnessing would allow a country which is always had a center periphery dynamic that's been very, very hard on the peripheral regions, like the core defense like dar 4,

like eastern sudan. if the center can't hold, the peripheries will drift into extraordinary violence. i believe in what makes this even more tragic is that we know sudan is rich and natural resources go diamonds. i mean, it has what it take to be a prosperous country. instead, it's looking more and more like a failed state fertile ground for a civil war, even maybe a proxy war. how do you see the future? the proxy war scenarios all to plausible. i think is important to note that there is a tremendous amount of arable land in sudan. it could easily be the bread basket of northeastern africa. and yet, under the alba, sheer regime, the agricultural sector was allowed just to almost disintegrate. and this is one of

the reasons and imports a great deal of food. one of the reasons malnutrition is so very, very high throughout the country. and if we do not get humanitarian access, we have very large convoys of food and medicine. we're going to see tens of thousands of people die primarily children in the coming months in do you think it means before we run out of time, do you think that the international community has what it will take to do just that to get the humanitarian aid there that remains to be seen. we've gotten some medicine from port sudan to on his way to cartoon, but we need a much, much more robust access and seems likely in the near term. there are rapid support forces checkpoints all along the main road from port sudan on the red sea to

cartoon, a distance of some 850 kilometers. very, very dangerous. and we've already seen 3 world food program workers killed that brought an end to world food program efforts. it from a humanitarian standpoint. i think that's really the most important one. we should be looking at right now. men to some out go very, very wrong in very near term mysteries. we appreciate your time and your valuable insights tonight on unfortunately what is a, a story that to be going from bad to worse. thank you. in the u. k. fans of the royal family had started preparations for the coordination of king charles the 3rd. in just a few days, the king's procession will head down this road from buckingham palace,

ending at westminster abbey. dedicated monarchies are already camping out along the route, hoping to secure a close up view of the royals. hundreds of thousands of people from the u. k and from around the world are expected to be in london on saturday for the crowning. of the new key is a reminder that top story we're following for you this our french police arrested hundreds of protesters taking part in nationwide demonstrations against planned pension reforms. clash is broke out in paris and other cities between protesters and police. you're watching the w news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we'll be right back with

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