four and france twenty four .com. to be able to use welcome to a line from piracy on france twenty four i'm margot in these are the main world news headlines the country besieged by strike action the french government reveals the scale of its pension reforms workers before nineteen seventy five. will now not be affected farm workers will get a minimum pension guaranteed and the rest move onto a universal points based scheme this has kind of the strike is. the gap narrows between the two major parties with only a day left of campaigning in the uk election breaks it the main thing boris johnson the conservatives. future of the nhss. the german

corporate and labor party support. thanks thanks to she tells the hey there's no genocide in brookline st. my mas de facto president faced the you in court is the crisis the dispsplaced o of a million people made a fatal military crackdown continues . thank you very much for being with us. pensions in front to o set to undergo a major reform announced this wednesday by the prime minister at waffle leap. comments that came as a general strike continues to grip the country the issue as united fronts almost l like no other with political extremes coming together to condemn the reform plans basically president michael. pledge to abolish the forty two special pension accounts number place them with universal scheme it's the

delivery of this campaign pledge at this conference workers out on the streets in protest. lobbies showed the government's objective of universal pensions is a socially fat. yeah but that there is no hidden agenda. the but we're not looking for small savings here all that. we don't want to abandon anyone. on the country we want to further protect workers purchasing power and the pension as of today and tomorrow look at. those old me into the socially fact no hidden agenda the words of the prime minister philippe however many people are angry because they perceive that they will be losing money with these reforms we have now silly from iran book on french politics professor at november at university. no union words sets- without a fight anyway it would expect people to work longer and what they would say is the days. age is a is a con

because legally the age will remain at sixty two but in pracactice. you will take a financncial hit if you leave early- yeah so in effect what this reform is doingng is forcig everybody to work longer so yes it is a red line entities. depending on the strike action depending on the momentum depending on for public opinion is probably one of the concessions that the government might have to do i if things go ouour goal agagainst against the government but agagain we are te very beginning we know that we have strides days. tomorrow and especially nextt week so it would only be about momentum nunumbers and public opopinion e government has done e is as i ws kind of put downs counts it's got to do it now it's going to it's goingng to white it's a bit of a c cat andnd mouse situatio. if the momentum is growing numbers is growing then the governmentnt would have to do

more concession and it could well be our disposition on t the server with age manany experts r people are saying well. because of the of the of the demographics because people are living longer- it's into the you know and they'll more older people compared to o younger people it's i inevitable thahat they willl be some- you know that the pension schemes are not twenty fund. so we need to work longer. so t that's whwhate governmentnt is saying. obviousy the trade uninions are tryingngo say they are all the ways of finding the money to fund the scheme not whether it's inevitable probably but the battle of the minutes is june between the union and the government is to say right. now is not the time. announcer from the university of northumbria is- french politics professor ideon book one with a coarser returned to the set. topic can throughout this program here live from paris. next to o many

frfrench workers have b benefitd from special pensions linked to that specific jobs. and of course negotiated over many years these a cool special regimes here in france among american took the example of his rail willie. rather work a grandfather to illustrate why he wanted to reform the pension the tough physical labor of his grandfather's days now far less demanding job. macklin says so working longer should be acceptable well each of the more than forty. special pension schemes has its own particularities sound strikers reasons to oppose microns plans. france currently has forty two different pension regimes or plans based on profession those separate plans would all come under one universal plan which promises to be the same for almost everyone. the government wants to and special plans which allow early retirement for certain professions such as metro drivers who can retire at fifty five. the government's plan would not affect those born before nineteen seventy five amber works on a points based system calculating a

person's attention based on the hours they woworked overr the te of their entire career. women are promised a 100% compensation for maternity leave and there would be a minimum monthly pension payment of one thohousand euros.s. the legal retirement age would remain sixty two with the so called. age when the maximum benefits kickin it would stay sixty four because of the war the prime minister indicated there would be some exceptions for people with physically demanding jobs. such as nurses police and firefighters who could retire earlier. this is because the issue that is bolton many people out on stririke in this general strikes gripping france right now. and it is set to continue for the foreseeaeable future we will kep across all depepartments we. boris johnsons conservatives leading the opinion polls at the campaign for the u. k. election enters its last day but the gap between the tories on the main opposition labor party is getting narrow. this wednesday the party leaders have been crisscrossing the u.

k. trying to persuade the undecided voters johnson ran into some controversy. on a new crown photo opportunity when his body count. a to tell a reported to- this is the incident. f. off live on tv this is live on television. this morning the u. k. the reaction then studio you can see jeremy called meanwhile pressed home his message on plans to reverse years of cuts of. health you public services trying to weigh from the start. the scandal of allegations of antisemitism breaks it is the issue that is dominating the election as these lotus in london show. i will break said of course but we have to be pragmatic. it is it was a referendum we have to abide by that. but the risk of- any of the rainbow coalition. operation conservative just take complete the brakes agenda even though i'm against that. but we need to move forward and give businesses clarity. everyone thinks it's so good to

be over at the end of january if the conservatives win but it led to just go on for years. and then in the meantime everyone's going to suffer a. the rough sea because it can still be here the homelessness is still going to be an issue. and time it changes just been forgotten and that is the most important issue facing us at the moment voices can trust the opinions that from the streets of london will bring you more analysis of the situation. in the u. k. of course and now that's a continue on that theme nigel farage leader of the brakes a party is very much the man who helped create the current dilemma facing the u. k. brereaks it has been his main target the past twenty years that he spent. as a member of the european parliamentt for hours it's been on the campaign trail in traditional labor territory the brexit is blurring the lines between that the traditional party support. of emmerich and. and only sent this from hockey pool.l. in northeast in e england.

hartlepool proud of its industrial past and its football squad. today that taking on a team from down south affluent off the charts. the game ended a droll but the team played well. among supporters the other topic of conversation is the election many feel look for the first time this labor strononghold may vote for the brexit party. twirled for the bond of a better phrase manual work as we've lost all no manual tasks in our- and i think that's why people got sick of it i'm not sure it could well be susie brexit missed out. the brexit parties on a charm offensive offering voters a clean break with the e. u. needed nigel faraj is campaigning i'll be off of policy chairman richard tice. i think in six light this will get a lot of labor vibes. and the key to it is. those who like conservative here if they see us as the challenge of a labor then yes we can win the- but we're working class people here vote for a million at property tycoon frorom the

capital jenny what people like to back someone with a track record of success you can get things done you can fix things. and solutions to problems and that's the message we're hearing on the doors. i'm missing in t the town center the lady candidate remains confidentt he'll keep his seaeat this woman voted to o leave the e. u. but she still supporting light. i believe. in that policies. and then. compassion for the working class has an integrated pa a one trick pony common it sounds again everybody's gonna fall behind them because- to pick with all the people are obsessed with bricks it and n not obsessed wih greg says they won't sissy a posse in power that can deliver for them and affect their lives and best of their lives is brexit the top priority once the votes are counted the- all to that question should become qureia. indeed some a british media outlets referring says the brexit election no less and- so the shadow breaks the cool so all of everybody's

decisions on it is blurring traditional. outlines of support across the u. k. we of course preparing for the election day. special programming throughout here on france twenty four. next a fatal attack on a military base in the jazz. the defense ministry that has confirmed seventy one soldiers at least have been killed in this attack on twelve wounded and some are reportedissing. the attack is the worst in recent memory in the shed the camp is in a remote area on the border with molly. jihadist groups- attacking the style with a growing frequency of cool something we've reported on here at to france twenty four. as well as the- french presence in the region causing a lot of diplomatic friction still the course of fronts permit to the heart of. operation bacaan before ha thousand troops based in the south region. well these- newss yes presidente mamadou- is whose office at tweeted data is to food cut short a visit to egypt. in order to return to the ship following this track. more on

the story as we get it. thanks and sushi is told the un court of justice that is don't genocide against ring of muslimims in myanmar. the fact the president to once world renowned humanitarian couldn't isolated figure in the hague she sought to justify the- minute she calmed down. the pushed a million people from their homes. the number killed the number of homes and villages destroyed is still unknown. do you and accuses the denny's ministry of ethnic cleansing. defending the same minute tree that once kept her locked up- censored she has told judges in the hague that the situation and racking state as put before the international court of justice. is misleading and incomplete. when you're assessing the intent of those who attempted to deliver the rebellion. surely under the circumstances genocidal intent cannot be the only hypothesis. my most leaders argued that the army was responding to an

attack by militants in twenty seventeen she admitted it may have used dispropoportionate force but said that didn't prove that it was trying to one pounds the virginia muslim minority group. the home from fifty seven muslim countries the gambia has accused mine mall reaching the u. n.'s genocide convention and is on the court to take emergency measures to prevent further violence. you investigate this last year concluded that mine must treatments of the ring yeah amounted to genocidede and rights groups have detailed a catalog of alleged abuses. his twenty seventeen more than seven hundred and thirty thousand people have been forced to flee the buddhist majority country. and most of them remain in refugee camps in bangladesh. it's got the analysis re brody joins us legal advice at human rights watch re getting to you ang sung su chi says this is not genocide- i just put straight toto you w what do you think. wl

janice. site is very difficult to prove- but we have. many investigations including a u. n. fact finding investigation. that found that all of the hallmarks. of genocide existed here on the systematic deniaial of the rights of the row hanga keepingg thehem in detention camps- debasing and- them as a group it's very interesting that on song soon she did not even use the word row his yeaea. in her statatement which i think that iff the judge's notice i i mean it's reaeally the definitin of a just wishing it to have just trying to dedestroy a group's existence b but again genocide is very dififficult t o prove you n need to show that there was an intense- on the part. of the country- to

destroy a group as such and you know what also answer she was saying was you know that a lot of. bad things happened here but you can't prove genocidal intense are reporting here france twenty four seems to back up precisely what you are saying re brody so i'll just get that out be open to. let the viewers know what exactly what we've been doing in terms of reporting on the set this situation- the range of muslims i've been offered a chance to return to recommend state. not many seem to be taking up- that opportunity- because basically the homes have been bulldozed destroyed and of course they feel under threat if they go back. absolutely i mean this is you know as you mentioned i mean over seven hundred thousand people forced out of the country over six hundred thousand people now living in camps are in. restricted villagages i mean thiss is you

knknow onene of the worst. at challenges one of the worst atrocities situations- that we have seenn in many years. an interesting you know is it we the lawawyers have an adage that when the facts are against you you plead the law. and a also answered she- really didn't. attack the fact so much as she just tried to say you know is this is not that very high standard. of genocidal intent that you need- i don't think you know s she obviously went to the hague for domestic pururposs she and she wanted to. t there's no election coming up she wanted to show her solidarity with the army and with the majority ethnic group- but usually when somebody accuses you of genocide. you you don't rush to the scene to bring the world's media with you. so i'm not sure thahat she did h hersef any favors e eitherr witit the judge'ss order with the

ininternational community-- bye bye speaking as she did today. early of human rights watch thank you so very much indeed we will continue because to report on the plight of the range of muslims. and of course- any us speeches and sayings on- thatt plate from thanks thanks to cheat the de facto president of myanmar. nexus t type of business and i'm pleased to announce kate moody joins us. return to our top story the french government's proposals to reform the pension system here in france. tell us. why kate. these changes are said to be need what front suspension system mark is widely seen as one of the best in the world with an especially low poverty rate among senior citizens. b but as peoplple live longer the program costs more and most agree that the current system is no longer sustainable at those levels. now about 14% of france's g. d. p. is spent on the pension system it's one of the highest levels in the world. and these proposed reforms won't really change that slice of the budget but

there is going to be more demand. over the past fifty five years the number of pensioners has increased about 7% and spending on pensions rose by nine but as you can see here in the coming decades still more people are expected to be claiming retirement benefits. well the pot of money available will not and cannot change that's why the government wants to shift at this point system that's been outlined- it'll do away with calculations that are based on your salary.y. at a certain time in your career. instead every hour worked in every europe earned will be translated into points and counted up at the end of your working life. the legal minimum age for retirement will remain sixty two from twenty six twenty seven workers will need to stay on for an additional two years in. their full pension benefits a sixty forty being described as a hit it age is already a tough sell for unions in france though. they say it's a red line that they will not cross. moving on the us federal reserve has kept interest rates on hold having already low

having already raised them. a three times this year- the central bank indicated that no changes are expected for twenty twenty. investors h had widely expected the announcement and marketets rose up beforee the closing bell there. there is growing optimism that the trurup adadministration might delay n w tariffs on chinese goods. which are due to kick in on sunday at the federal reserve has. in fact lowered its interest rates three times this year not increase them. earlier was all the major european indices closing up as well the dax gaining over h half a percentage point there- investors in the u. k. meanwhile paying close attention to thursday's general election. sterling will likely rally slightly if boris johnsons conservative party manages to win a majority. course france twenty four will be following that throughout election day. and as the results come in on friday. oil giant to saudi arm co has launched its shares on the stock exchange in riyadh. shares jumped 10% in the first few minutes of trading reaching the daily limit for gains. it comes after an already record

breaking initial public offering of shares which raised nearly twenty six billion dollars. the kingdom has been trying to drum up demand for the shares in advance of today's launch. including from state investment funds. saudi aramco is now officially the world's most valuable publicly listed company worth nearly one point nine trillion dollars. and some analysts say this guy could be the limit. i think we're gonna hit two trillion dollars tomorrow- we expectedd it to the market to trade limit up today- tomorrow. could trade limit up again but w we arere we will be very surprised if we don't surpass.. if aramco does not bebecome the world's first company to trade above two trillion dollars tomorrow. american transport regulators have said it could be months before boeing seven thirty seven max planes are cleared to fly. the aviation giant had hopeped to get clearance before the end of twenty nineteen. it's been workiking on a series of software updates since it's max fleleet was grounded around the world in march. following two deadly accidents which led

to total three hundred and forty six people dead. head of the federal aviation administration admitted a mistake in its oversight of the planes suggesting thehey should have beeeen grounded after the first fatal crash. insisted certification process would be done entirely independently of boeing's own timeline. when a seven thirty seven max's return to service. it will be because the safety issues have been addressed. and pilots are received all the training they need to safely operate the aircraft. this process is not guided by a calendar or schedule. i'm not going to sign off on this airplane until i fly it myself. on tuesday french and he's voted to phase out single use plastic packaging by the year twenty forty. environmental activists say it's far too late well businesses are worried a about the economic impact of adapting to those new girls came in at like us more. it everywhere you

look says he depressed gee that's plastic milk bottles of plastic. goingng back to glance well n no not going to sell a- bookok i i live free that's noto things were sold in calls before. that's howw the guns replace everything helpful home plus a- too so. if you buy something anything in a supermararket the chances are it came in a plastic container cool wrapped in plastic. but over the next twenty years single use plastics will be progressively phased out in france. after lawmakers voted for a band to come into force in twenty forty. six and please don't. get hurt it's a joke twenty forty is far. away and this is an emergency. out of all good the government cleleary isn't taking climate change seriously. for the first two nights but some argue the delay is justified because then hope we've given ourselveses twenty years whichch is also in line with france's it carbonization

plans that's the time businesses need to adopt.. businesses wonder change is bad newsws for consumers the federation of plastic slams the decision is unrealistic saying that the industry is already investing in recycling and re use. but most of the fivee million tons of plastic that onts proroces every year never gets recycled. a realisistic t time frame o or wy behind the curve depending on how you look at mark indeed kate thank you very much indeeed plastitic fantastitic. pops up. let's move on mediawatch beckons james creed wrapped up ready to go to readings- marc boris johnson in the fridge tell the small. well yeah i saw the headline earlier today on i sold this headline first which is soccer mark news thump it's sort of like the onion boris johnson hides in the fridge with the rest of the government but the second off the headline is. insulting i guess serves a typical- and it's service says

this. it has a cool bird cold in here chops mobile bars to some other on appealing bags of calm so they're always enough funds from at the editorial. when i was four years i worked in the bacon fat july he's quite very cold in the fridge you could quite desperate to dive into and you didn't. come across a promise for any any. i could not find. in any case. so i saw that i was like okay so her. and then the next thing is he was this and i'm like hold on a minute. this happens. boris johnson. hides in the fridge to avoid piers morgan interview. so this was he was to be to give him some bits of credits. it the e. was somewhat ambushed by a- would buy it buy it by a group of journalists and that the guardian has the images here- i think it was an explosive in there somewhere you can see that they're a sorry i didn't. intend to five words actually look like if we create enough and of this we had at the subtitles be rigighty judged showing the wood on that's right but what happened here it just. is it in order to avoid the tv interview. he sort of went into this frozen. rock which is a kind of a fringe of frozen. goods and- so this was

all in order. who's going to what they call a middle ground with. a milkman delivering milk that was it sort of started the day with you on one of my- essential jobs in certain communities images are fine but we don't want questions. a date. rape well that's sort of a i mean i was consusulting thee been dodging into the situation has made some reference sent. well this is this by way of context for viewers who aren't following at the british election so closely andrew neil. veteran bbc. interviewer format is the sunday times form a prospective parliamentary candidate for. the conservative party since he's concerned i don't know so exactly i mean he- he- it's likely that he wouldn't miss it well. i'm sure during his at all only to be honest it offering the what is very good and so because at parsons refused to come on at the bbc which is sort of unprecedented he'd already interview jeremy corbyn another leader. he he sort of empty chair at him and said look if you're going to. be dealing with like the presidency of china- let me picking you can surely be interview by me. so it's a a campaign that certainly has been. the tory campaign has been. criticized strongly- far

as well the facact that- parsoss avoided interviewews andnd avoid it's- kind off close scrutiny of policy. but also at- market wiwithout sort of appearing too one sided here but this is this is objective information. an investigation found that 88% of the advertisements on facebook and elsewhere were misleading- compared to at. labor odds which apparently with according to this campaign weren't misleading us was. advertising always has a bias right when it's political. but there's a difference between bias and- and actually many misleading content pointed out that the conservatives have issued misleading statements. this isn't your buys my bias or anybody's buys that it's in. fact checkers. reserve in it like the back to the brakes a campaign with the big red box offifice at two hundred fifty million a month the nhs complete nononsense. yeah i suppose we've been seeing t this in thehe us and thehe uk and elsewherere f for ibm in many different countries many differently. at political campaigns the move to the drift towards. ad campaigning that said that that is a promotion- i suppose triggering people go and actually but the common

denominator and all that but the brexit thing on the other he speaking about his bar stools. yes dot start stop that's a fact. you know. and i guess. it's only going to encourage political parties and leaders to pursue

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