>> things for joining us on "france 24." you are watching live from paris to hear of the. french security forces lift the blockade of an oil depot early this morning, this as trade unions are forcing a slowdown throughout the oil sector. 20% of guest asians in france are struggling to resupply. the victims of last year's terror attacks -- 20% of gas stations in france are struggling to resupply. swiftlyban have moved

to choose a new leader after the death of mullah months or, their commander and religious leader. we will find out who he is and whether his right rise to the top might change the taliban. also coming up, and landmark deal is reached to make it easier for greece to repay its mountain of debt. we will have the details in our update. garros forth they of actions they with andy murray, taking center stage. withurth day of action andy murray, taking center stage. here in france, the hard-line flatscreen'st is muscles to try to force the government to withdraw labor

reform. early this morning, security forces cleared a blockade that was preventing access to an oil depot. consumers are feeling the effects of the oil sector being disrupted. one in five gas stations is already affected. refineriesfrance's shut down. s locked.pot stations areg either tapped out or running low, causing long lines at the pump. all of this is part of the labor union strategy to get the french government to roll back the contested labor reforms. over the past two months they have not been listening. now we are going to hit where it hurts. >> when you are the president or prime minister, when you see this in france, you have to ask yourself about your politics. >> prime minister manuel valls

says enough is enough. since march, the labor reforms have prompted multiple protests, but the national movement has been waning. nowgovernment of the cbg is hunkering down. frustration is growing. >> it is my day off and i am going to have to spend it looking for gas. says heead of the cgt will see this to the end. the determination that the unit is extending to other sectors, with trains, nuclear power plants, and air traffic controllers all picketing this week. cyril: marc perelman is our french politics editor. you are tracking the movements of the first question for you today is, how dangerous is this for the government at this stage? marc: it is dangerous especially for a leftist government and president, france while whole

lot, who said i am the man of theal dialogue and for first four years of his mandate has had problems here and there, but on the whole has been able avoid major demonstrations, strife, and social unrest. this is clearly a test, and it is dangerous because it is affecting every french. this is why the trade union, the cgt, is targeting the oil sector, because it knows everyone has a car or needs to have something delivered for work or for personal reasons, so this is why this is an open challenge to the government, that they have to get out of it. it is difficult because you need either to negotiate and to stand firm, because many people are unhappy to have their private lives being disrupted by all the turbulence. cyril: in this tug-of-war between the government and the hard-line unionists, who has

more leverage, and who do you think can least afford to back down? governmently the cannot afford to back down. first of all, because on this controversial bill to reform the labor law, it has already backed down in a way because it has watered down the bill. in the end, it decided to push through parliament without a vote. this was a way of admitting, in a way, that it did not have much support but that it wanted this law to pass. if now the government blinks, this will be seen as basically the end of the mandate of france while whole month. he is not able to deliver. the government has to be firm, and they are hoping that anger at all the disruptions will help being tough, like the prime minister, manuel valls, who has said we will not back down, they will eventually get the support of the majority

of the french. the polls do not bear this out, and that is the problem. the cgt is also trying to hold its line. it also needs to get more support of its battle with other trade unions and so on. maybe a way out, offered by a social leader, we might discuss some amendments to the current bill, especially amendments that the unions want to see. so this is maybe an opening, maybe a trial balloon, but this needs to be sold very quickly. that is one thing. it cannot last with the image of france, for the economy. this has to end very soon, and the government hopes that within the next 48 to 75 hours, all things will return to normal. cyril: marc perelman, thank you very much. this needs to end very quickly for the french government. one of the reasons is there is a

deadline coming up of june 10. that is when france is going to start hosting the european football championship, euro 2016, 2 weeks from now. paris is building a huge fans own for that in front of the eiffel tower, where tens of thousands of fans will be able to follow games live. however, some concerns are being voiced. >> with less than three weeks to this fanrs are getting zone at the foot of the fo tower ready. 90,000 people a day are respected together there during the euro 2016 football tournament. 100,000 meters squared, it will have the biggest tv screen ever built in europe. security will also be paramount. for some, a fan zone in the center of paris is a bad idea. >> at 2:00 in the morning i want to be able to sleep, and my daughter when she comes home at night. i do not want to be harassed by drunk hooligans. >> a point of view shared by

many officials. the fan zone should have been located in the stadium, where security measures have already been in place. >> it brings the possibility to carry out an attack in a spectacular way. i'm asking that the fan zone be transferred to the stadium or canceled altogether. the paris mayor's office says the area will be safe with heightened security. >> way, along with the police, believe it is better to have one area rather than spreading people across the city, making them more vulnerable. paris attacks in november, a total of 12 million puts of funds have been across the 10 sites across france that are hosting turn them in spirit cyril: six months ago a terror cell was launched across paris killing 130 people

and injuring hundreds more. the victims and relatives of those killed are being given the opportunity to meet the judges leading the investigation. it is a three-day meeting aimed at reassuring stressed families. our correspondent has been following this what kind of questions have the family been asking the judge's? >> the families have lots of questions. theas been six months since terrorist attacks, and this is the third time they have been able to meet a judge. some of them feel abandoned and they do not know what is going on. today is the day for them to ask you questions. crucially, the victims' families will be here today, and they want to know what happened in the siege, which lasted more than two hours. they want to know when and why and how the police decided to go .n and confront the gunmen they also want an update on how the current investigation is going. they want to know how france is

going about trying to track down and break up the jihadist networks in france and around europe. they also want to know, these families have been plunged into an unknown world of the justice and they willce, need to be accompanied so they can understand what does the justice feature in france. cyril: is there any sense whether they are getting any relief from this process? >> a similar meeting was held on tuesday for the families of the , and thef the attacks football stadium on november 13. actually left and they felt relieved, they said they felt better informed. they are able to ask the questions they wanted to ask. they were given a minute by minute update of what the police

know happened on november 13. they were told that france has issued arrest warrants in 44 countries in europe, so they felt better. however, the bataclan was a different story. that was a two-hour siege that went on, whereas the cafes in paris were more drive-by attacks. so for the bataclan, there will be different questions. it will be interested to see whether they will get answers to those questions. cyril: an attack in kabul took place today. a bomb went off on a bus, killing 12 people in afghanistan's capital. claimedgent group responsibility. just as the taliban are moving to replace their late leader, mullah mansoor. -- mullah mansour. now haibatullah akhunzada

has been brought in as the replacement. brought in as one of the oldest recruits. he was one of the first to join them. 50 years old. he was born in kandahar, known as a very strong presence of the telegram. it was the head of the religious courts in 1996, and up to 2001. back to he was sent afghanistan. of the head of the religious figure today. and he was the second behind mullah mansour before his death. that are hisople aides, if i may say so. they are very important as we

latethe son of the taliban leader, the founder of the taliban, if i may say so. we know mullah omar did not accept the rule of mullah mansour. he ended by joining him. so there are branches within the telegram. wassim: exactly. they named him as the deputy today, the latest of the head of the telegram. and the second deputy is the son -- we are talking about hardliners next to this new leader of the telegram, who is said to be moving toward negotiations. we do not know yet. cyril: peace negotiations are

obvious is something that is very important on the agenda for afghanistan. are the taliban accepting entering into peace negotiations with the government? at the moment they have not. but theyhey have not, were. they halted everything with the pakistanis claimed that mullah omar was dead. so this is why they did not go to the second round of negotiations. and then mullah mansour was appointed, and mullah mansour never attended, as you said. we know that mullah mansour or -- he had very good relations with the iranian regime and with the pakistani intelligence. by killing him, they want to push forward the peace negotiations. we do not know if this is going to work. .bama is throwing the dice we do not know if it is going to work or not. , theesults on the ground

telegram on the ground are increasing, not decreasing. we will see if the killing of -- the taliban on the ground are increasing, not decreasing. day of actionrth at the french tennis open. our correspondent is with us. the headline today is the world number two, andy murray. world the two is playing for the third straight day after battling it out with that are in check player step in it. tepanek.ear-old -- sp things should be a little bit easier today for andy murray. he will be playing against a 160ch wildcard, ranked

aboard the atp tour. he will be playing for the very first time in his career on the central court at the french open. the good news for andy murray is that today the sun is finally shining, which means the clay will be a little bit dryer and a little bit faster, which is much better than what the players have had so far, which is slow clay. he will be getting plenty of support for the local crowd, thecially since today is first wednesday of the competition, the first traditional kids day at the french open, with many french people's coming to spend the afternoon here to cheer on local favorites. a lot of french players up today , including gasquet. a lot of big names are coming up, including the defending champion, stanislas wawrinka, who will be playing this afternoon as well.

that was a quick sports update from the french open in paris p let's turn to business news. stephen carroll is joining us for that. you are going to start with new video streaming in europe. video streaming providers like netflix and amazon will include quotas of european made films and tv shows in their offers. it is part of an effort by the eu to create a single digital market and to do away with the geo-blocking features that makes content only viewable in certain countries. the european commission's wants the u.s. streaming giants to devote 1/5 of shows that were made in europe. we will go to greece, where at landmark deal has been done over the country's that in the early's hours -- the country's debt in the early hours of the morning. the international monetary fund had repeatedly warned the

country's debt was unsustainable and threatens to pull out of the bailout package if that relief was not agreed. nicholas rushworth has details. nicholas: a breakthrough deal more cash on with the table for greece in recognition of its efforts to adopt reforms. also a roadmap for long-term debt relief taiz greece's mountain of debt. -- to ease greece's mountain of debt. >> it is an important moment in the long greek program, an important moment for all of us. since last summer, where we had a major confidence of -- a major conference crisis between us. further debt relief for 2018. the cost for greece for repaying its debts will not exceed 20% of gdp. of the imf is signaling

it will come back on talks as it reels in the debt. currently 180% of gdp. >> that is not recognized by all stakeholders that greek debt is unsustainable. we also welcome that there has assessreement for how to the sustainability. being budget cuts are followed in athens over the weekend. detailnciple is short on and private aspects. the bundestag is delayed until after germany post-general election next year. cyril: let's look at what is happening on the stock markets. a pretty good day for european shares. markets showed gains by lunchtime yesterday.

government could be considering selling its stake in the carmaker. more business headlines for you now. shell is slashing another 2200 jobs as it tries to cut costs. the oil giant previously announced 2800 redundancies. citing crude prices and it's 45 billion takeover of bg. toyota and volkswagen have advanced major investment in the ridesharing industry. toyota will be working with uber on a partnership allowing drivers to lease cars from the japanese firm and will cover the payments with airfares. volkswagen is putting $300 guest. into uber's rival conditions will remain challenging in the year ahead. profits fell by over 18% in the

past year. has promised to overhaul and & s's clothing lines. finally for business news, pizza lovers may soon be able to order their meals. marc: they're going to try to use pepper as a cashier in certain -- customers are allowed to pay for that food with pepper in a few outlets in asia. --is already being used pepper is in a program to chat with customers. attemptrd has a genuine to see how payments will be processed in the future, but there are also guaranteed -- they guarantee workers' jobs. cyril: how does that work? there is a robot but people

still make the pizza? supervision in business news with stephen carroll. time now for the press review. florence villeminot has been reading the papers this morning. let's see which you highlights for us. article that you pulled out is on the state of the syrian economy. flo: this is a very interesting angle that talks about, you can see on the front page of "the the street journal." inside mangled economy. in wartime syria, economic survival frequently trumps both policies and ideology. .hose prayed across frontlines you have the islamic state group trading with the syrian regime. they are all trading with the kurds as well. some of the most dangerous commercial transactions in the world are all made possible face to a band of gutsy truck drivers. they make it all happen by

crisscrossing the battlefields to bring food, oil, cars, appliances, even livestock. "the wall street journal" interviewed some of the truck jobs about the challenges they face. they face air bombings from the syrian regime, but also in islamic state territory they are facing calls to grow beards. cyril: the refugee crisis is continuing to grab headlines. one german minister has called for more contributions from the european union. a german foreign intelligence minister. i will pull out an article from this turkish paper. he says the eu response to the migrant crisis is inadequate and has called for new instruments to do with the refugee crisis. you can see where he is getting to in the headline here. his proposal is that 10% of the eu budget should be shifted to responding to this refugee

crisis. he suggested putting a special theissioner to deal with situation, the special commissioner having control of the budget of about 10 billion euros to leave essentially a combined eu strategy. drawn a lot of criticism for not having a unified strategy in dealing with the refugee crisis. the u.s. is drawing criticism for the way it has been dealing with the migrant crisis. i pulled out an article from "the washington times" indicating that the state to setting amitted single day record. obama is trying to meet his target of 10,000 approvals by the end of the year, but the acceleration has actually renewed fears among security analysts who say that essentially the administration is cutting corners, and all this to make a political goal. cyril: also in the press, and especially in the french papers,

they continue the unrest in government upon insistence to push through its reforms to the labor code. the hard-line unions here are slowly paralyzing the north. >> that is right. a major standoff is going on between the government and the cgt. the trade union is leading a protest movement. therding to "le figaro a," protest movement runs out of steam. it is an interesting strategy to read about. a man is interviewed, the former leader of another trade union, the cftc. he says the government is playing the long gain. it is a war of attrition, and it seems to be working because all the things you heard about these days are these spectacular, violent demonstrations. no longer do you hear about the petition against these labor codes. being al about

spectacular demonstration. puts theseent hard-core protesters that are leading these violent actions in the target of public opinion against them. he said that could happen, but in the coming days it is going to be quite a tense situation. for the moment,for th the -- the federal government is being held responsible by the group for the unrest. more strikes have been schedule in the public sector, the rare where -- the railway sector, so you can expect some chaos. take a look at what they have on the front page. there you go. is it a complete paralyzed situation? inside a poll was saying what you were saying, that the government is witty for public opinion to turn its back on the protest movement, but for now that strategy is not working. check out the results page 61% of people say it is the government's fault.

if the situation continues to deteriorate between now and when the euro kicks off in june, it will be the government's fault for pushing this law all the way through. this comes after another;bq th

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