people are taking part in strikes and protests against pension reforms proposed by president manuel mac holmes government. in a rare show of unity by all french trade unions across the country, the majority of trains, metro's, and buses are not operating about 70 percent of teachers who are also on strike. the french president wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years. let's get more from people, madeleine, a journalist for the french financial daily. lizzie, cool. in paris, a table. this isn't the 1st wave of public sector strikes to hit france in the past few years. give us a little perspective, how significant is this current wave? well, it is significant. the union said this last day that if they reach a 1000000 people on the streets, that would be a success. and this morning or this afternoon and one of the main unions said day that it went far beyond their goal. so we can expect, we see the figures in about an hour so that the $1000000.00 figure would be probably reached. and it's, it's big. and, and i just said, or unions are united against reform, which is quite unusual. yo