. —— president chirac. had to abandon what were less ambitious reforms to the pension system.ial security system which were two big fields of anxiety for everybody and also much more than today for the private sector. today there is one topic on the table and only one, that is big enough if i may say so, which is the pension fund. there is no other subject. in 1995, mr chirac withdrew his pension plan but he maintained social security and he succeeded. so it was half in half. today we have only one topic and i am confident it will succeed. possibly with amendments, possibly with delay and application of some rules. maybe with more of a transition period. it is still open for discussion from what i understand but i am not a member of the government. three men who were jailed in the 1970s on the evidence of a corrupt metropolitan police officer have finally had their convictions quashed. winston trew, sterling christie, george griffiths and another man were accused of stealing handbags in south london back in 1972. the officer who framed them was later jailed, dying in prison. o

in 1995 president jacques chirac's government scrapped its reform plans on. the 3 weeks of nationwide strikes in 2007 president nicolas sarkozy push through some changes but not without public protest macross plans faced opposition from many sections of society including transport workers and threatened rolling strikes or objection to the ideal would be to find a system that's fair for everyone it's a big ask some people were hired with certain benefits and now they're being told those advantages could be taken away this analyst says the president faces his biggest test yet. there's a risk that all the sectors join in health transport lawyers university then the government could fall i don't think that we are that point yet but the government certainly can't back down because it would be a political failure. mccall has already passed several controversial reforms and although he may feel confident after surviving months of yellow vest protests social discontent still lingers natasha butler al-jazeera paris. let's bring in our guests laura sliman e is a city c

way to confront a prohibitively expensive future now that was the argument that president jacques chirac all for it back in 1995 the last time that the french president attempted to touch pensions 3 weeks of strikes then forced the government to give up nothing changed is president mack wrong looking at history repeating itself. a sea of strikers it's the largest mobilization across france in decades this time it's all about pension reforms for future generations. pension it's a kind of anybody afford to me. who don't have enough to make ends meet and this reform will make things worse. all cindy said the mission of my my free time myself in 10 years' time and i'm not sure i'll be able to survive on what mccall is proposing is that simple. however by thursday afternoon scenes from paris city center showed increasing violence groups of protesters smashed store windows and clashed with police among them members often anarchist groups the so-called black bloc the violence made visible to frustration many strikes supporters feel with the french government. and they keep it off that is it goi

choose the arab league and here we are asking about to influence towards did he act as you told us chirac who has in the end the solutions the power to reformists to sions and to have all of the will to control the police and for example we should shift our adding and ask about if we are to talk about the book has a president he used to be able to have any kind of influence on the army will be able for example to fragment all too clearly on the divergence that oh already exists within the army circles as bush just so by putting get get in the side in 2004 at the end of the army and marginalizing generals who are when they were asked to been discovered since i don't think so and that's where the discipline that he's actually i don't think that will be able to work on carraige are to put pressure on the army in order to arm from within in marjah to stop requesting we're pressing people i mean the same day he was talking about that i logged a lot of people in what about an hour and a whisper it's not hard to buy one request and this has launched a total so directly campaign throughout the co

rating of the restaurants close it's really bad what this all goes back to actually 1905 when jacques chirac failed to secure the whole painting for the pension plan so you think about the pension in france pensions in france thought were instituted in 19561956 a life expectancy expectancy was 50 to 60 years old it's 82 years old now the failure of european nations and we've had this across the world i mean we've had riots in russia and in the us has been talk about the pension issues that we have here on the funded is that what should have happened is when pensions were instituted they should have been indexed to life expectancy then we would have no problem i mean you wouldn't have riots and people said ok we're your baby's life. well that will be you know working until the baby will be working until they're 70 or 80 never to be writing about what their babies had to do they're writing about themselves now or in the in the near future so the underpinning of the problems in france is the failure to index life expectancy for pensions and people out living the pensions you were supposed to ha

and chirac had to back down. his reforms were less ambition than those of macron.politicians. he is rather good at winding up the president of the united states but seems to be equally good at winding up 800,000 french workers. but french politics is mightily complicated. the unpopularity of presidents sometimes after next to no time leaves us standing. we spoke to an independent expert earlier in paris who says he thinks macron may get these reforms through in some shape or form but thinks macron may get these reforms through in some shape orform but i suspect we will see more pictures like these on the front pages before then. staying with the guardian and a frightening headline, the rising toll of measles. nearly 10 million cases and 142,000 deaths. where are these facts and figures coming from? it seems these figures other worldwide figures. some of the countries quoted here are the democratic republic of the congo and similar. and what is criticised here are anti— vaccination activist who have been very vocal around the world in recent years. and the figures,

in 1995 president jacques chirac's government scrapped its reform plans after 3 weeks of nationwide strikes in 2007 president nicolas sarkozy pushed through some changes but not without public protest macross plans faced opposition from many sections of society including transport workers and threatened rolling strikes. the ideal would be to find a system that's fair for everyone it's a big ask some people were hired with certain benefits and other being told those advantages could be taken away this analyst says the president faces his biggest test yet. you think there's a risk that all the sectors joining in health transport lawyers university then the government could fall i don't think that we had that point yet but the government certainly can't back down because it would be a political failure. back or has already passed several controversial reforms and although he may feel confident after surviving months of yellow vest protests social discontent still lingers. when he says. seen yellow vest protesters at the end of our report in fact the universe protesters say that they're going t

in 1995 president jacques chirac's government scrapped its reform plans after 3 weeks of nationwide strikes in 2007 president nicolas sarkozy pushed through some changes but not without public protest macro's plans faced opposition from many sections of society including transport workers who threatened rolling strikes or objecting to the government's aim is very clear to contribute to the impoverishment of the pensioners of tomorrow who are today the employers who drive the economy of this country. this analyst says the president faces his biggest test yet. you think there's a risk that all the sectors joining in health from sports lawyers university then the government could full i don't think that we had that point yet but the government certainly can't back down because it would be a political failure. macko has a ready past several controversial reforms and although he may feel called for dint of to surviving months of yellow vest protests social discontent still lingus. because today the transport is not been working public public transport has been working properly schools shut unive

minister abdul mahdi of course handed in his resignation on saturday no news off his departure for chirac is out on the streets once again as they continue their pressure campaign pushing for a complete political overhaul remember more than 400 people have been killed by security forces since the demonstrations began in october well simona faults in is in baghdad for us with the latest it was not clear at all whether the parliament needed to vote on his resignation and all because it's not something that is mandated by the constitution but it appears that parliament convened and discussed the resignation there was no actual vote with speaker of the parliament simply ask the members of parliament who had attended to fashion whether there was any objection to other his resignation and with that his resignation was then accepted now the constitution actually says that if the prime minister's office becomes bacon for any reason whatsoever to be the president who takes over but other happy is paying on at the caretaker government which is something that usually only happens when there is a vot

in 1995 president jacques chirac's government scrapped its reform plans after 3 weeks of nationwide strikes in 2007 president nicolas sarkozy pushed through some changes but not without public protest macross plans faced opposition from many sections of society including transport workers and threatened rolling strikes. the ideal would be to find a system that's fair for everyone it's a big ask some people were hired with certain benefits and other being told those advantages could be taken away this analyst says the president faces his biggest test yet. you think there's a risk that all the sectors joining in health transport lawyers university then the government could fall i don't think that we had that point yet but the government certainly can't back down because it would be a political failure. and mcconnell has already passed several controversial reforms and although he may feel confident after surviving months of yellow vest protests social discontent still lingers. well you would have seen the yellow vest protest is there the end of that story in the yellow vest protesters are in

is gone.of chirac how does the centerleft regroup if the capitalist macron has no competition?may be part of the answer, the same answer i gave you on the climate issues because one of the problems in france as you have ecologists with the green list which has taken support from the socialist party. there has to be an alliance between the green -- and this may be a solution in germany -- but the green and the social democrats have to come together to form a political force. i suspect that is the only way forward in germany, france, and in a slightly different way, here. tom: coming up, we will drive forward the conversation on this historical action. looking forward to the conversation. in westminster, a historic day for the united kingdom. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ francine: boris johnson leaving number 10 downing street moments ago in his traditional jaguar. he is on the way to buckingham palace to tell her majesty the queen that he can form a government, and we expect him to come to downing street in about 10, 20, 30 minutes. it is a private briefing between her majesty and the