a d w ah ah, this is deed of the news live from the land mass protest in france over changes to the pension system. police and demonstrators clash in paris as hundreds of thousands take to the streets. angry about president crohn's plan to raise the retirement age. also coming up, ukraine fights off the new wave of russia as strikes as the u. s. as moscow has lost 20000 troops in the battle for back. and

a top un official says sedans warring generals have agreed to send delegates to potential peace talks. ah, i'm told me about welcome to the program. we start in france, where, where there's a fresh wave of anger against president madam, across pension reform plans, hundreds of thousands joined, traditional made a demonstrations to condemn the plan, which would see the minimum retirement age raised by 2 years. the interior minister says more than a 100 police officers were injured in flashes of protesters worldwide. hi, classes with police smushed, windows. paris is once again a light as angry people protest unpopular plans to push the minimum retirement age

to $64.00. those marching here, see this is a made a call for workers' rights. well, 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 what they're doing, that he saw unfair young people, this of variable them for us to be here because we are, it's our generation go with the further consequences of this policy. hundreds of thousands turned out across the country. people here really as far as the, i can see it all directions on, there are similar scenes all over france. so if the french government hope tickets simply turned the page on this basic political chapter. well, it's clear that these demonstrators have other ideas and the bigger question looming over this protest. and this whole affair really is what will be the longer term political results of all this resentments. much of the frustration here is

directed towards president emanuel macro. he says the reform is needed to keep the pension system financially viable, but the french leaders approval ratings have plummeted. and this analyst says there's only one winner here for yellow police. okay. looking at the opinion, polls and foot protection, that is all that's to been the federalist extreme. ride for like the national relief because they symbolize anger to work around the world. mccomb calling. there has never been such a swift drop in the french president's popularity handle. so can, and that's what's problematic. it was because he has 4 years left. his power until be complicated for him to pass any new for myself. as soon as i formed the pension law is now moving ahead and some think this made a mobilization is the, is men's last gasp, aster multiple nationwide strikes. but these parisians fail, keep up the pressure. and the fall out from this political battle may be felt for

years to come. the report by our parish correspondent rosie bershard. as she told us, the unions were hoping for a big turn out across france. this 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 are 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 contents 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 are more than 200 people have been detained . more than a 100 police officers have been injured and the french prime minister has slammed on violence on the side lays of these media protests as unacceptable turning to the

war in ukraine. u. s. officials say they believe russia suffered at least 800000 casualties, and that includes $20000.00 killed in the battle for the ukrainian city of bah, moot since december. and this comes as russia fired another barrage of missiles targeting cities across the country. cave says its air defenses intercepted most of the rockets, but at least 34 people were injured. this eastern, jacqueline and city of pablo here, arg was struck. boys by russian miss isles. over night, air strikes destroyed dozens of private houses, and is parked a mess of fire. especially 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 shot everywhere. had we been outside, we would have been killed university, not one, not lou offish and see dozens, including children for wounded and recent attacks. many residents are still frightened, we took a risk which included or we rushed in the hallway and lay on the floor, the gravel now. and then the explosion waved twist at the door. we still don't. 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 dress or fire lit up these guys or will give, what do you could 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 blades are being targeted across ukraine. a correspond nick connelly is in cave and he has more on mondays attacks. well, as you mentioned, that no casualties in care, but certainly a lot more activity. why did yoga fi than just keep all the 30 people wounded in the east, the country near the stiff new pro. it's believed 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 wasn't more recently in recent hours. we've heard more detail about other attacks. other missiles in the west,

the country near term it was saying we need ski. so it does seem like there is some kind of logic behind these attacks, but it just suddenly comes as a shock after basically the best part of 2 months without attacks. beyond the front lines and people here in key of now very coach the fact that those area warnings are very serious indeed. meanwhile, the european union has struck a deal to resume imports of ukrainian agricultural products e u states bordering ukraine had been torn between helping their neighbor and protecting their own farmers and leading some of them to ban imports. the you hope 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 farmers, niece in europe complained that they were being left with mountains of unsold produce and that the availability of cheaper ukrainian grains damaged their business. poland normally a staunch ally of ukraine, even bond imports unilaterally leaving long lines of ukrainian trucks stuck at 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 you without tariffs for another year, mr. to those success when you, i think this is a success for the european union that it was possible to reach a compromise solution and get out of this crisis which seemed to be potentially dangerous economically and also politically already the issue that compromise solution may get the trucks moving again and e u leaders, hope it will maintain the image of a europe united in its support for ukraine. asked, let me take a look, not some other stories making headlines around the world. us regulators of taken

control of troubled 1st republic bank and sold it to j. p. morgan chase 1st republic had assets worth about $230000000000.00 and more than a $100000000000.00. and deposits is the 2nd largest retail bank to fail in u. s. history, thousands of people have taken part in march here in berlin to mark the may day holiday, but organizers ended the demonstration early pretest in protest at the police presence one and 6000 police were deployed in recent years, the german capital has seen classes and international workers day celebrations, the un top official incidence. as the countries warring generals have agreed to send representatives to potential negotiations, full cur, peter said the talks could be held in saudi arabia and would focus 1st on establishing a durable truce. now clashes are still being reported in the capital,

have 2, despite an 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 vouchers that will come. we'll 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 eating. shortly after the warring parties agreed to 72, our truce violence broke out again in the capital her tomb. while foreign governments are scrambling to evacuate their nationals, thousands of sudanese are seeking refuge in neighboring countries but many have no choice but to hide in their homes. amid rapidly deteriorating conditions.

muscular we hear the sounds of artillery it can fall in the street and front all the one behind. when the maria shall we have to sleep on the floor. there is no water, electricity, there is no food, nothing more murphy for her. in addition to food shortages and yos, war and that sedans health care system is on the brink of collapse or nike for all lee and get many working and trained minds in the health care sector of fleeing sudan to my book. there is a withdrawal of many engineers and non ingenious due to direct attacks. by all means, it's a disaster leg a much more by shot at abilene, fiarty, in one of them or even before the fighting rocked it a 3rd of should a nice were dependent on some form of humanitarian assistance. now fears are growing that a prolong 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. bah, has the country moves deeper into crisis? sudanese people abroad are calling for international action to end the violence. we are suden analyst, eric reeves, about the risk of the conflict incident, could turn into a proxy war proxy war scenarios all too plausible. i think it's 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 of next. steven bisley has more on the seizure of a 1st republic bank in business, and that's after a short break until medical money is at the top of the up with these places in europe or smashing the records stepped into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters discover some of you are record breaking sites on your max youtube and now also in book form ready for around 3.