made a right tree house work in paris with black bloc arsonists smashing windows torching cars and clashing with police over the french president's labor. this is r t eight pm wednesday night or a moscow welcome to this live news update for the next half hour with me now and starting with this american officially has a new top diplomat former cia director mike pompei is just being sworn in as the secretary of state in a ceremony at the state department attended by president. i must say that's more spirit than i've heard from the state department in a long time many years we can say many years maybe many decades it's going to be a fantastic start a fantastic day and that spirit will only be magnified only with this man right here i know that for a fact. so lots of promise or is there let's cross no top washington correspondents american thomas or the events america well the ceremony today took place at the state department with trump president and in fact it was the president's first ever visit but trump had nothing but praise for pompei o a calling him a patriot with immense talent energy a

protesters hijacked a peaceful rally against the french government's labor reforms the so-called black bloc torched vandalize shopfronts and clashed with police across. those in the thick of it. the. fundamental question is now starting the police i want to have a look over you'll see the tear gas is coming up to us the police move again and that's because just behind us there is a fire going on the demonstrators have put forward to a vehicle and emerged to bike and as you can see smoke ok. well as you might have gathered we've just been in the middle of what was quite a large clash between the police and the protesters just look behind me this is one of the trucks with the water cannons and you can see the gendarme now coming down and you can see some of the water in the form that's been on the ground to try and push these protesters back take a look behind me and they're actually trying to barricade themselves up now that's off to they set fire to what looked like a g c p the fact it's still own fire over there in the distance the process is to it is if you just turn around a little bit m

authorities,french this was the work of the black bloc, the violent left-wing anarchist group. they try to incite violence and looting out of peaceful antigovernment protests. police have deployed 1500 riot police to face what they thought would be only 800 protesters. in fact, they were matched almost 141 -- one for one. >> there was a group of at least members.k bloc these are individuals who dress all in black, wear hoodies and face masks and protect themselves while they carry out their attacks. over 100 people are in police custody, but leaders say the response was insufficient. >> this attack of paris by far left militias is unacceptable. they are galvanized by a permissive goverernment. it is time to strike down these educatorors. reporter: from australia, the french president gave his reaction. what macron: i condemn hahappened i in the strongest t. there is no need to get unreasonabably worried. it is just a matter of standing firm. there is a government. there is a state. our leaders will continue to lead. reporter: he has vowed to push ahead with his reforms, despite

may day riots recount in part black bloc kids smashing windows torching cars with police over the french president for. a new poll in the u.s. suggests the democrats are losing support among.

as the worst may day violence in parra since nineteen sixty eight on tuesday over one thousand black bloc anarchist turned up to a peaceful union organized protest against president mccrone the labor reforms they began clashing with police hurling smoke grenades and destroying cars and property officers arrested more than two hundred solve a mosque left wing activists half of them are still reportedly in custody with more on the going rests that gripped the french capital here charlotte dubin ski. the boards here of a fast food restaurant that have been put up that was completely and utterly destroyed yesterday restaurants further behind on the street will also destroyed and basically the police did very little in fact nothing for a long time when this destruction was happening it was only further on into the demonstration when the violence took place at little bit further on that they actually did something now they've said the reason that they didn't react this quickly is some people say they should have is because they were trying to avoid collateral damage there's also been criticism

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restaurant and car dealers they say around twelve hundred members of a libertarian group called the black blocare responsible. a judge presiding over the detention of two quarters journalists in myanmar has refused to throw out the testimony of a police whistleblower the journalists were arrested in december when investigating government abuses in rakhine state they're accused of violating state secrecy laws by acquiring official documents but a policeman who was appearing as a witness last month told the court that one of his senior officers gave the documents to the journalists to entrap them he's due to testify again next week. shares in some online dating companies have taken a tumble after facebook announced it's creating a new dating feature mark zuckerberg says two hundred million people on his site currently list themselves a single but as you service which will launch soon is seen as a move to rebuild facebook's popularity among younger users but getting back trust may be tough due to ongoing privacy concerns facebook has been hit hard by the cambridge analytical scandal which saw the

restaurant and car dealer as we say around twelve hundred members of a libertarian group called the black bloc were responsible well here in the u.k. prime minister to resign may's facing a revolt from within her own policy over bracks it that could potentially bring down a government a group of around sixty m.p.'s from her ruling conservative party have spoken out against her favorite plan for a customs partnership with the e.u. post writes it the government's so-called rights it was cabinet is meeting to try to find a solution. we will be leaving the customs union we want to ensure that we can have an independent trade policy we also want to ensure that we actually we deliver we are committed to delivering on our commitment of no hard border between north. and ensuring we have as frictionless trade as possible with the european union nine out of ten people worldwide are breathing and with high levels of pollutants that's the alarming assessment from new data produced by the world health organization and as natasha going to a reports is that people living in poor countries who are most at ris

restaurant and candle as police say around twelve hundred members of a libertarian group called the black blocwere responsible. global military spending is on the rise according to a new report out of sweden but russia is bucking the trend with it expenditure falling for the first time in almost ten years its longtime rival the united states continues to be the world's biggest spender and is expected to fork out even more this year but on a honda explains. two hundred and thirty dollars that's the amount of military spending last year for each person on the planet it adds up to almost two trillion dollars or two point two percent of the world's economy military spending in china rose the most last year based on the latest figures from the stockholm international peace research institute all sipri the twelve billion dollar boost leads a twenty nine year upward trend in asia china's two hundred twenty eight billion dollars budget is being spent on some big ticket purchases aircraft carriers don't come cheap china has bought one and his two more under construction contrast that with russia which

we've seen record number of women running for office, but black women in particular have been a crucial voting blocm voted for hillary clinton over donald trump in the alabama special election, 98% of black women carried doug jones to the finish line. now they're running as candidates and this is something you hear the party talking about more and more. calling them the backbone of the party. they're not investing in them in ways that these candidates feel is helpful. >> it's insane that they're being ignored by democrats. in 2016, 95% of black women voted for hillary clinton. >> right, exactly. that's something that i've heard from them. when talking to them or many of these women who are running worked on doug jones' campaign. they're inspired by things that they see the party achieving. but they are concerned in the ways that the party is not reaching out to them. and one big thing i hear from them is like we don't even know where to start with fundraising. all we're asking for is best practices. or to help you know share guidance on things like that. we don't need handouts, we just need resourc

blocs will join forces to form a coalition government. now to some of the other stories making news around the world transport minister has announced that one of the black boxes has been found at the crash site of the airliner that went down near havana state media have confirmed one hundred ten passengers and crew died in the disaster three survivors are in hospital in critical condition so far the cause of the accident is not known. of all kaino that forced hundreds of hawaii and to evacuate their homes has erupted once again residents were forced to hunker down and shelters as kill a way out began spewing fountains of lava last night geologists say more eruptions are possible though a massive outburst is unlikely. italy's anti establishment party five star has reached a coalition deal with the far right leak the two parties are now haggling over who will be the next prime minister they're due to present a nominee for approval by italy's president on monday. priss just can't film festival began over a week ago and the palme d'or the top prize has now been awarded it went to the japanese movie shoplifters the film takes a challenging look at convention

black package number three? joan and from utah? -- gentleman from utah? >> thank you for including it. i yield back. >> no further discussion, the question occurs on military en bloc package number three. those in favor say aye. those opposed say no. the aye's have it and the amendments are adopted. an amendment. >> the clerk will distribute the amendment and the lady is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you and my colleagues. we have 4.6 million women who receive health care to the department of defense and i don't think any of us wanted them to be second-class citizens. haven fact, they do inferior health care to civilian plants. access to contraception is essential to women's health and well-being and the dod should give service members and the dependence the same options women in the civilian world receive. the number of unplanned pregnancies in the military is so much higher than it is in the general population. in fact, it's 60% higher. we know 50% of pregnancies are unplanned, but beyond that the unplanned ones in the military are 60%. this has a negative effect on readiness since nearly 13% of servicewomen were unable to deploy as a result of pregnancy

backup plan to solve one of blacks it's -- brexit's biggest conundrums, what to do about the irish border. they are proposing an extension of the customs rule once it leaves the blocome up against skepticism from e.u. officials and faces obstacles at home. good theresa may end up going down that path and what it work? joining us now is the director of international trade and competition, a free-market think tank. also joining us is david merritt and kit juckes from socgen stuck around. and we are grateful to him for that. david, let me kick it off with you. there are conflicting reports and the u.k. press about the customs union. what do we know the prime minister wants? david: the prime minister once a compromise that will keep not only her cabinet contented. we have warring factions within the cabinet, but also the broader party at large. something she can get through at the whole of parliament when they've made it clear they will be voting for their own proposals or a new customs union with the european union. she has a difficult task ahead, and we have had the inner cabinet breaking up without agreement in the last few weeks. this current proposal seems to be

black trump postpones steel tariff decision for eu, other u.s. allies .. .. president donald trump eased trade pressure on top u.s. allies monday, giving the european union and some nations outside the blocffect against china, russia, japan and others-won't take effect for the eu tuesday as previously planned. instead, europe will have an additional month to keep talking with the u.s. about a new pact to avoid the tariffs. disney's avengers broke records and investors barely cared . . . disney's marvel studios had arguably the best weekend ever for a film studio, thanks to the unprecedented success of avengers: infinity war, which earned $258 million at the domestic box office. the previous opening-weekend record was held by star wars: the force awakens, another walt disney (dis) franchise. marvel also held the no. 5 spot over the weekend, with its breakout hit black panther still drawing crowds in its third month of release. black panther has now made $688 million domestically since its february debut. here's what strikes me as odd about all this: disney continues to show its prowess for making blockbusters, but investors don't seem to care. apple results to show iphone growth problem a