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with the background of a deadly virus. and a million man march which urgingom a shia cleric fofor the full witithdrawal of l iraq.roops from welcome back. cabinet ministers are gathered in paris today for a meeting after which the government's long-awaited pension reform plans will be unveiled. this triggered the longest ever transport strike, which had been on hold. protests are underway right now. last night, i'd line unionists procession as a warning to president emmanuel macrcron they have not gone awa.
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while the main protest is underway in central paris, it is and france 24's correspondent is there. what is the mood like? emmanuel macron may be presenting reforms to the for their approval today, but the message from the street is the light is not over yet. the people here are adamant that they remind us the majority of the french public opposes these pension reforms and they say that while this may go ahead with the cabinet today the protesters still hope they can influence the broader .arliamentary debate the big issues have not really changed. this all caps off seven weeks
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ago with unrest across the country. insistingment still that it will be fair. but the unions behind this big rally in paris are very clear. they say individual sectors, individual professions like teachers and lawyers and doctors that currently have a good pension system -- that leaves out a lot, as well as people who have worked part-time work their whole lives. we message here today is still want the entire pension reform to be scrapped, even if that was particularly unlikely with the political part of this protest really picking up steam today. tom: we talked a little bit about the protest route, because ute, becausetest rp it's unusual to go all the way
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through place de concorde. nadia: is certainly is. it is next to where the president is holding the meeting today. the police force has authorized that part of the city since the 1930's. their att has taken all the last dust taken place has beenno protest there at all for thehe last two years. we will have to wait and see throughout the day how much anger is direct it toward the president as we get closer or whether there is violence. there is a good degree of police presence. 5000 to 6000 police officers. lm enough, but we will see what unfolds. you posted. keep
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thank you. i knew who life iris has claimed the lives of 25 and a affected more than eight others. who has to clear outbreak to be an emergency. roadblocks have been set up the chinese c city of lujan. this is after the start of the loan your -- lunar new year holiday. we have more from beijing. >> as the e numbers of cononfird cases keep rising, china upp austria's response k keeps rampg up with h new citieses being imd again,port ban once potentially affect thing millions of people.
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the new school year has been and a back indefinitely new hospital is being built this weekend. it should be finished within a 1000 moreo h host patients. around the country, pubublic spaces and performances are bebeing closing canceled and the lunar new y year fesestivities e bebeing affected as well. whereally temple fairs, hundreds or thousands of people gather near temples to eat, drink, and watch lyon and dragon dancing. wondering h how it got toto a point where a authors crisis that about a
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was avoidable and controllable this is what a numumber of peope in china are asking the question, is the situation really under control? we have that from beijing. hundreds have gathered in central baghdad for a massive rally called for by a shia hisics who has been calling supporters to take the streets for what he is going a million man march. they are demanding the withdrawal of troops in response to a u.s. drone strike, which resulted in the death of iran's , qassem solemani. on october 29,
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demonstrators were happy to see joinowerful shiite cleric the movement. others see the political and religious leader as a threat to their cause. they have been fighting corruption and also iran's influence over authorities. but he is close to iranian authorities. images from september, he has seen next to iran's ayatollah khomeini. >> the people came out on their own. no one should come and try to ride the wave and say, i lead this protest. we did not get any help from outside iraq. sadr has tried to
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reassure protesters that he will not eclipse them. but they have one focus, pushing the u.s. out of iraq. solemani,u.s. killed undermining iraqi sovereignty, many have criticized the u.s. alliament voted to expel foreign troops. some protesters believe that he could use that momentum to strengthen opposition to the u.s. to weaken their position, sacrificing the protest movement's initial goals. president donald trump says that his long-awaited middle east peace plan will be released before his meeting with israeli prime minister intranet yahoo! and his top rival benny gantz. byn, which has been overseen
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the president's son-in-law jared kushner is largely favorable to isisrael. 'sporter: donanald trump self-described deal of the century may finally unveil itself. pence: presisident trump is asked me to extxtend an invitation to prime minister netanyahu to come to the white house to discuss regional issues as well as peace. netanyahu's chief rival benny gantz is also invited. the details of the proposal kushner arejared unclear. there is speculation it will allow for is really y soverereiy over the jordan valley and the meanwhile reported that they would be undivided under is really control.
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launch of the plan has been delayed numerous times over the last two years. it's likely to face opposition from palestinian leader mahmoud abbas, and not ininvited to washington. a spokesman warned israel and the u.s. not to cross any red lines. government, the trump administration has avoided endorsing the two state solution, which envisions a palestinian state alongside israel. donald trump said all reports about the plan were purely speculative, but details would emerge before the meeting on january 28. president trump will later today become the first sitting u.s. president to address the annual antiabortion gathering called the march for life. president to oppose
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abortion such as ronald reagan and george w. bush never personally attended these marches. trump's appearance shows a dramatic change of opinion. 20 years ago he said in a tv interview "i am pro-choice in every respect." our correspondent is in washington to tell us more. for the first time in its 47 year history, he march for life will see a sitting u.s. president. it is definitely a watershed movement, but also the latest from donaldupport trump to a key part of his political base, the religious right. they have stood by him throughout the controversies, despite the divorces, despite of interest ink religion, and that is because he has delivered on one of their key issues, abortion. the man who once called himself
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the very pro-choice has appointed countless very conservative justices from the lower courts all the way to the supreme court. he has cut federal funding for abortion and has pushed for more laws restricting act -- access to abortion. he is hoping that conservative voters will once again turn out for the polls. some are already showing their support. one pro-life political action group, the susan b. anthony live , -- list, announced they are contributing $52 million to the otherresident, as well as pro-life candidates through the 2020 election cycle. stars the tvhe has "the sopranos" testified at the trial of harvey weinstein. testified that he forced
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himself on her in the 1990's. her testimony builds a broader picture of weinstein's habit of trading on women. our correspondent tells us more. reporter: "he got on top of me and raped me." the allegations of annabella ciora. actress bought back tears and she took the stand. >> she testified that he held her hands over her head. getcouldn't -- she couldn't him off her, she did fight back, that she said no, that he did not stop. in ther: she said mid-1990's weinstein barged into her apartment, held her down on a bed and forced himself on her. the actress, known for her role
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in the hit tv series "the was the first of six accusers expected to testify against weinstein. her allegations date too far backck to be prosecuted. she was called to establish a pattern of behavior. weinstein only faces charges based on the allegations of two women in his trial. we appear to be having a bit of technical difficulty here today. let's move onto another story we're following for you. the nba is holding a game in paris between the milwaukee ,ucks and the charlotte hornets and there are more plans for games in france in the future. the venue has a capacity of 1/10 of that number. to find out more about france's growing love of basketball. reporter: far from madison
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square or the staples center, this slice of america is not in the big apple, but in the city of lights. these basketball fans are at the at one ofin paris, the sports events for the year. the nba paris game 2020. they are looking forward to seeing their heroes out in the courts. >> he is the best. the bucs are the strongest team in the league. it's amazing. it's a great headliner. this is jan assigned to the cabal. he hopes that this year's game is just the beginning. hopefully this is something we can do every year.
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we play different countries. it gets the people closer to us. reporter: going head-to-head with the bucs are the charlotte owners, a team majority-owned by retired player michael jordan. depth, feel out of their they do not let it show. of acould mark the start new tradition. after nine years in london, the nba says it will be coming back to paris on a regular basis. tom: now let's get a reminder of our top stores. fresh protests are underway and industrial action in france as the government prepares to unveil its long-awaited pension reform plan. the lunar new year holiday begins in china, but this y yea, the largest migration of human beinings on the plplanet comes h the backdrop of a new, deadly virus.
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a shia cleric in baghdad calls for a million man march. he is calling for the withdrawal of all u.s. troops from iraq. and those are the top stories. i will be back in a minute with more. >> france 24. for n news chanannels in n four languages. 430 journrnalists. 160 bureaus around the world. a global reach. 385 and households in more than 180 countries can watch france 24. the audience is multiplied by two in five years. france 24 online is also forging ahead. at over 15.5 million visitors a month on france
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24.com. it's a leader on youtube. f facebook followers. to our constantly growing community of viewers -- thank you. it is time now for french connections. it's our weekly look at the in paris.s of life we begin with allegations of police violence. >> thank you. recently, it really came to the forefront when the yellow vests protest kicked off. since then, hundreds of been seriously injured.
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dozens have been maimed for life. it's not just to ministrations and crowd control. there are incidents of people dying during heavy-handed arrests. anseems that there has been increase in police errors, police blunders. >> are things really worse than before if you compare them? >> if you talk to sociologists, no, police are not more brutal than before. but police abuse has become more visible. incidents caught on tape become viral. that being said, there has been an increase in investigations the police violence by
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police of the police. if we take a look at the figures between 2018 and 2019, the allegation is police violence by the police has increased by 20%. there are some who say that this started as the gilets jaunes movement, the need for control , it was brought into question by the international community. >> that's right. in particular has really come to symbolize police violence in france and you can see it here. it is the use of fresh -- flash ball riot guns. fires rubbern that
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bullets. keep in mind these weapons are banned in other countrieses. since november 2018 they have been regularly used to disperse crowds. this alongside other things like cloud dispersing grenades. caused ahey have staggering number of injuries, including hundreds of head injuries. there have been several severed hands and it has caused a lot of outrage. take a listen to a yellow vest activist who lost and i are in a demonstration. during an eye demonstration. that system?e i am terrified by what my
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country and leaders are doing. is howbig question now are they reacting to these allegations? >> a after initially denying wrongdoing, authorities have started weighing in. president emmanuel macron has recently said that unacceptable some officers risked undermining the force in general an angrysparked reaction. a lot of focus hasas been from e interior minister. he has started changing his tune. he kicked off the yearar by reminding police of their duty for exemplary behavior. just makes you officers in the police look bad. you stay calm, even in the face of provocation. so far, no major policy of
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de-escalation. saywhile, french police .hat this is proportional and they warneded that many of these images have been taken out of c context. exactly. they warn of an ananti-police sentimenent inrarance. ,hthey say that riot police protesters come with the specific aim of fighting the police. >> is not just a fog from a rough neighborhood. these ears, even a good family man can come at police. i have seen things evolve in a that direction. they take away our flash ball guns, our strangulation methods, our police going to finish the message? that is ridiculous. >> keep in mind police have been
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have beend there repeated demonstrations in the wake of those terrorist attacks in paris. in 2019 a shocking report came out about the worryingly high suicide rate among french officers, one suicide every four days. public opinion think about this? 50% of french people say that they trust the police. relation between the people and the police are complicated and that is being tested today. watch frencht to connections again, you can go to our website, france24.com. >> special event. rubbingd trump is back
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