finally rejected in january place i've been trying to forcefully of expand our correspondent on a day bensky followed of benz's clashes came to a head at the beginning of this week. girl who was killed it was was the world the world will hear you were a few years old. who was this land was scheduled to be part of an airport development many people were against that people moved into the land they took over they built a commune over many years many people say that this is now their family land they they farm here and they want to protect it the government said they had to be out by the end of the winter they were given until last week to leave they've been given an extra week's grace and what's happening now is this is the battle between the police the c.r.s. or the government and the protesters the saddest who say that this is their land and they will do anything they can to defend it if in throwing bottles they've been throwing fire at the place and the police have been responding in kind with tear gas at times it felt like this the sky was raining with tear gas here and our colleagues arti

including transport workers are refusing to back down in their long running strike artie's shiela do bensky reports. this is yet another day of protests to be churning into clashes between the police and the protesters unhappy with many of the reforms that the my own government wants to make and they determined to make every sees heard and it seems that voices are being heard but yet again it's just clashes that what most people are speaking about. cross has that he doesn't care about our movement but if he wasn't afraid at all he would not send so many national police officers here. and happy with the government because the poorest classes are always the ones who are forced to give their weakest are always the ones who are being given today were fighting for public services from medical services with good hospitals and equipment i don't like the entity of micron's government towards the movements and the problems work is a facing a somewhat so to stick the head of state seems to be deaf judging by his speech at the problem destroys book he thinks that he's in a position of power. we've jus

and the activists known as augusts don't want to give up what they cool bez to defend shelagh do bensky was a demonstration of how the french are still is almost all round us now so now running we've got the police running behind us oh wait the middle of this where you can see the police are trying to come i tell you the protesters into one particular spot trying to move them down the street we have already seen tear gas being fired at the protesters in the protests is throwing things out the police every some small skinny she says and this is over your child on the lawn and these are just sites they've made this place their home base was up place of land that was a must for a possible airports the french government decided earlier this year that he would not be building the airport but it has said that it wants to expel all of the saudi . so on a case by case basis from this land you can see behind me now the police are having to come back the protests just pushing them on for mistreating not they came here to protest against the expulsion of the people who started it should not do or

been trying to evict protesters from their camp where they've been for a decade artie's shiela do bensky reports from the scene you can see that we just had to you gas fired into this campus trying to move desired demonstrators away and that's because just in the foreground but difficult to see behind some of the smoke are some of the structures that some people have been living in some protesters have been living on this site since two thousand and eight they say it's their land and they will stay and we've been speaking to one young mother who's got a fifteen month old son who's been living here for seven years and this is what she told us about her thoughts on losing her house which looks like it's next in line to be demolished i think i'm pushing away any kind of real emotional attachment to the buildings right now maybe a cry later to me we're all in this together. and crashing a building on those on the side is crushing a building on the sides i think i acquired first on the land i think i. fit me it just means that we have less buildings for all of us together and that's the shame

january police have been trying to forcefully have picked them off from correspondent shabba doo bensky followed events as clashes can go ahead at the beginning of the week. so god was rude if you were little you would be if you feel. this land was scheduled to be part of an airport development many people are against that people moved into the land they took over they built a commune over many years many people say that this is now their family land they they farm here and they want to protect it the government said they had to be out by the end of the winter they were given until last week to leave they've been given extra weeks grace and what's happening now is this is the battle between the police the c.r.s. all the governments and the protests is the saddest to say that this is their land and they will do anything they can to defend it if in throwing bottles they've been throwing fire at the place and the police have been responding in kind with tear gas at times it felt like the sky was raining with tear gas here and our colleagues artie's video agency will caught up in that take

off correspondent child to do bensky was following events as the clashes came to a head. so god. will kill you you think if you will the. god this land was scheduled to be part of an airport development many people are against that people moved into the land they took over they built a coal mine over many years many people say that this is now their family land they they farm here and they want to protect it the government said they had to be out by the end of the winter they were given until last week to leave they've been given an extra week's grace and what's happening now is this is the battle between the police the c.r.'s or the government and the protesters the saddest who say that this is their land and they will do anything they can to defend it if in throwing bottles they've been throwing fire at the place and the police have been responding in kind with tear gas at times it felt like this side of the sky was raining with tear gas here and our colleagues artie's video agency will caught up in that take us. inside. because you. already feel very fortunate to see well as y

may now be facing eviction a winter amnesty on forced removals has now expired and the shelter do bensky reports many now face an uncertain future. for many spring is a welcome change from the winter but for others the prospect of warmer weather means only one thing they're at risk of losing the roof over their head every year france has what's known as the winter truce between november first and march thirty first landlords cannot forcibly evict tenants that includes people who live in slums and shanty towns like these we try to speak to the residents in one camp they refuse as they're afraid of being like them to fight and expelled but we had to journalists here before they filmed and then people were expelled sorry sorry who we've just moved over from the camp because they've told us we don't want to go on what we saw though it's something you'd expect to see in a developing country squalid living conditions shanty towns where across france thousands of people are living like that you wouldn't think this was all of the richest countries in europe or the place is the reality for some p

french president monroe micron's now asking critics of the saudi air to give him a chance shot to do bensky explained. the saudis a crown prince's been on a global charm offensive of the west for the past three days here in france it seems like it's being or hugs and handshakes for mohammed bin salman he's even joked about having asked special bond with the french president. that's despite the fact that bin selman is the leader of an absolute monarchy considered to be one of the world's most oppressive regimes yet on his visit to france saudi arabia's new tourist reputation for human rights offenses seem to have been swept under the carpet. or your legitimate questions from civil society and from journalists about human rights and various sensitive issues concerning your country we have the choice to stick to our traditional positions and we can decide that the first acts of modernization of the society will be cosmetic as the prince was winded and dined to protest his struggle to draw attention to the saudi offensive in yemen who have been calling on france to stop the use of these weapons

of young migrants they claim drugs theft and fights on the streets make it dangerous to try to do bensky has been speaking to some of the residents. as you exit the metro in much of paris is. the first thing you notice groups of young men. locals claim they migrants mostly africa they say they formed gangs and generally wreak havoc theft is common and it's clear even the police feed this area its popularity within minutes were offered advice from an officer of the government. who see police stopping and searching their banks. locals say terrorized by a group of around sixty juveniles migrants from morocco but because they teenagers the police rarely do anything more than give them a caution for. fighting between them life with. knife's you know what time of night when it's not. like five or six at the ball because you know. it's like the god of the like the one is falling on. them it's like yeah you know it's like like you ladies like you know it's coming for all of you like you know and it would be. yes yeah yeah it's like your father's life is it's you know is under the legs for me for

we can see from mons in france where shortly we have to hear from our correspondent charlotte due bensky what's really happening there as we have. protests which effectively is a group that were originally set up so that they could have a protest against a local airport that was meant to be built there the government has now relented but it's the commune the people in the commune who are now in protests and now we can transfer to wrack correspondent. who is life at the scene so hi there charlotte can you tell us more about what's been going on. well that's exactly what's happened here is that this land was scheduled to be part of an airport development many people are against that people moved into the land they took over they built a commune over many years many people say that this is now their family land they they farm here and they want to protect it the government said they had to be out by the end of the winter they were given until last week to leave they've been given an extra week's grace and what's happening now is this is the battle between the police the c.r.s. or the govern

action is put french president emmanuel mccrone under pressure in the french parliament shall do bensky picks up that side of the story from paris. well the debate was called in the french national assembly following the decision by france to stand alongside the usa and the u.k. and all strikes in syria over the weekend well there were many voices heard in that debate many of them congratulating the military on their operation but they were fiercely critical that the operation had taken place at all and that much corn had approved it without any parliamentary approval here in france now there are also questions raised about the evidence that was presented by france as to the reasons that they believed that chemical weapons had been used by assad's people questioning whether it was right to use evidence based on social media there were also questions raised about the legality of the strike so many people saying that without a u.n. mandate how could they be legal others questioning why the european union community was not also involved in the decision to take part in those strikes let's t

the region in the early hours of saturday morning with a view from europe correspondent shiela do bensky in paris and in london. we've heard from to reason made this morning she's been holding a press conference here in london at downing street and confirming that four already f. jets took part in that they launched a series of air strikes how successful those airstrikes have been remain to be seen we're seeing reports from the russian foreign ministry that the vast majority of those all of those as strikes were shot down so it's reason may not speaking to the success of them but very clear to make it to make the point that this is not an attempt at regime change but merely in her words trying to deter any future use of alleged chemical weapons we've also been hearing from the opposition the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn he's the labor party leader and he called into question how legally sound these asteroids parliament should be consulted problem it should take a view on this but instead the strikes were launched last night parliament is in session on monday she could have come

action is put french president emanuel mccrone under pressure in the french parliament shelagh do bensky picks up that side of the story from paris well that debate was called in the french national assembly following that decision by france to stand alongside the usa and the u.k. and order strikes in syria over the weekend well there were many voices heard in that debate many of them congratulating the military on their operation but they were fiercely critical that the operation had taken place it's all and that much corn had approved it without any.

engaged to the operation without parliamentary approval our correspondents shiela do bensky in paris and alley in london have been following events for us. so the u.k. this morning announcing that they took part in those bombing raids in the attack against syria we've heard from to reason made this morning she's been holding a press conference here in london at downing street and confirming that four jets took part in that they launched a series of air strikes the reason may not speaking to the success of them but very clear to make it to make the point that this is not an attempt at regime change but merely in her words trying to deter any future use of alleged chemical weapons we've also been hearing from the opposition the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn he's the labor party leader and he called into question how legally sound these asteroids. bombs won't save lives or bring about peace britain should be playing a leadership role to bring about a cease fire in the conflict not taking instructions from washington and putting british military personnel in harm's way to resume