have been causing long lines of passport control slowed protest reporting from paris charlotte do bensky tonight. well it seems is out with the yellow vests and the blue vest says police are now trying to squeeze concessions out of the government they're unhappy with what they see is deteriorating conditions the amount of overtime they've done some twenty three million hours and that includes because some of the work that we've been doing over the last five weeks with the best protesters and of course increased security that we're seeing around christmas markets and some sites across france in the wake of that strasburg attack and they say it's simply not enough the unions describing the situation for policing as big city. do not get the grease was superficial even considering the social and professional obligations of our colleagues when they are not in uniform they become yellow vests because we are middle class or even lower because of our salaries our origin that's why some colleagues feel that they are yellow vests because of the yellow fasts really resonates with police well those

what was some of the worst rioting in over a decade well our correspondent in paris charlotte de bensky joins us now with more charlotte good to see you very little has been said by the french president so far but others are talking about the protests on the. yes that's right the french president has not addressed the nation o'toole in regards to the protests that have been going on for the last few weeks here in francais there was a suggestion that he might speak out last week but he decided apparently not seeing the suggestion is that he didn't want to see you lose the flames ahead of saturday's demonstrations so we are expecting nothing addressed the nation by president michel and at some point today a snore this week and that's something that many protesters have been asking for since the very beginning we've heard from the french prime minister but norton president meant course we to again while the right thing here on the streets of paris after a fool for a weekend process there was also joyous in other cities across from hundreds of well more than a hundred thousand people who ca

arrests of reportedly been made during the day in paris police using water cannons tear gas shot to do bensky reports. well chaotic scenes here just outside the hotel de ville in paris just think a look over here see a gas raining down as the protests this looked like they were trying to push through woods the island were not for the famous cathedral is situated they were throwing projectiles at the police and then the police responded with this tear gas this is one of many clashes we've already witnessed today in paris as usual is come out for a six day we also saw many people injured in some of those clashes including somebody who appeared to have a broken nose and injuries on the leg as they were trying to run out a form of the tear gas in an area where they had been cattle jane and these injuries largely due to the fact it seems that the crowds were pushing people away i just take a look behind you see some of the special mobilized police units who are out in force as some one thousand two hundred and twenty five police officers were being mobilized today and security offices full fewer t

from the government for the thoughts of the discord and rush to link the movement to russia so i did bensky went to find some suspects. it would. at least that the mainstream media was searching for it was the russians who are behind france's mobilization over the yellow dress protest is nothing to do with the high cost of living fuel taxes and deteriorating services in rural areas so we've come out to the streets of paris to find out if they. have been at it again where all they. were. no i don't think i've definitely found one. yes. by you in paris to make people protest known the. uk. no media. in your chest i see in. the russians are they behind the yellow vest protests or is it that you just like he was just good to release the loop remove. the parts use the news in your mouth of. the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow vest on saturday immediately which is a. boy with a request for those are some pictures of. all this place suspiciously could be the center of russian activity in france. france or do you mean you know he is so deep int

in the government the motion was tabled in the wake of last protests across the country shot and bensky reports. well this was no surprise the result of this this vote of no confidence as you mentioned there rejected by french m.p.'s in the nationalist assembly on thursday evening they were ject it by two hundred eighty nine to seventy now this was launched by three parties from the left of the political spectrum and it came in the wake of a speech by president mack on an address to the nation on monday where he described france's experiencing a social and economic crisis that's as a result of the protests that we've been seeing these elations of the yellow vests over the last few weeks now the result as i said wasn't a surprise because might cause a lot of public amash party has got a big majority in the french national assembly but let's take a listen to some of the debate what the prime minister would felipe had to say and also the leader of finance also meese. one of the parties who tabled this vote of no confidence. containing the president's social and economic emergency measures

paramedics in paris it's high school students across the country all holding rallies charlotte due bensky literally was in the thick of it covering it all for us in france. as you can see there is sounding there so i are insane just on the plus still a cold cold as you go towards the national assembly the thing that they're unhappy about is a change in france it was implemented two months ago whereby hospitals now you decide to reach ambulance service in france will collect patients and their drivers are concerned that that could threaten their jobs in the future we will always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything will be here until the end. last night the elisei government and hence it will be cancelling that increase in the fuel tax just as i was off to the french prime minister had gone to the national assembly to say that it would be suspended for six months the president may have hoped the u. turn on fuel tax hikes would have quelled the anger but it hasn't it only seems to have intensified it with truckers of foam is our new students now taking their conc

the proposed fuel tax hikes the catalyst for this in the first place our correspondent charlotte do bensky reports next from the french capital. but i'm just checking a look at this this tear gas going everywhere we've also had reports that christmas trees are being burned across paris we are of course in the last few weeks early doing up to that festive season and here we've also had rubber bullets being deployed each. very close to us this is our rubber bullets. but we've also seen people who've been injured in the sean sillies day to day in fact there was a pool of blood at one point i for one person who seemed to have had a mouth injury and we are really trying to move i tell you. it's in very difficult and it really does get completely and so are you t. is streaming down my face again as a result of tear gas i can't tell you how many times that we've been gassed we're in the middle of it it's what we're trying to have lots of people coming to get to be before you know you should where you go who else but the thing is even when you go where you go girls you still get tear gas everywher

the non-lethal ammunition and also numerous warnings from human rights groups over their use to do bensky reports from paris. well there are lots of dangers from these l b d forty's or more commonly known as flash for weapons that they use to launch things such as tear gas grenades sound grenades and even these rubber bullets and those can all do significant damage if they hit people in those protests people with broken bones fractured teeth bruising internal injuries we even saw a number of our crew being injured over the last few weeks of by some of the items that are being shot out of those flash balls but the injuries can be even more serious and that for some people they competed life changing around them either were going to come or are. going to do it. why would the french government want to pull states off still all these flash rules they can as i say launch things such as this the rubber bullets well that's largely due to the protests that we've seen in france over the last few weeks the country has been having gulf biden's violent protests for some people describing them as bein

protests have taken their toll on the authority of president micron along with his ratings chart due bensky reports. another day another protest in france. by the government's u. turn on a fuel tax rise feel like the winds are changing and blowing in their favor now as the crisis continues parties from the left are calling for a very tough no confidence in the french government this second in months. for a vote of no confidence as is clear from the name means that we tell the government you are going in the wrong direction i mean the majority party of course the government can then resign and the president of the republic would appoint a new prime minister in addition to the three factions that signed this vote of no confidence the communist party unbowed france and the socialists we want to unite and win over all of the deputies. touted his front seats hope when he was elected last year he came into office with an approval rating of more than sixty percent but he's gone from jupiter to g.s. with the latest polls showing his popularity has crashed. labor will be free companies will be suppo

potential hot spots with paris than during some of the worst rioting in decades last saturday chawla do bensky reports on the preparations to stem the violence with bated breath that many parisians are wondering what will become of this city this saturday three weekends of violence help already rocked the capital some described as the worst in decades. but the government too says it's braced for significant violence is a form assume we have information about a great number of individuals who are coming to paris not to protest peacefully but to confront to attack the forces of law. across the country eighty nine thousand security forces all being deployed here in paris eight thousand will stand between protesters and many of the capital's most iconic sites police of shops and restaurants to close these a. many tourist sites including the eiffel tower. all battening down the hatches. not exactly the christmas spirit many were hoping for when they booked their trips bad that we had to keep one day at a wholesale is going to be the interest. i'm not going to be here as if it never came like see th

paris on saturday alone as demonstrators run riot smashing property across the capital charlotte do bensky reports from paris. as you can see this is sounding there so i ring say i just on the plus telecom cold as you go towards the national assembly the thing that they're unhappy about is a change in france it was implemented two months ago whereby hospitals now decide which ambulance service in france going to collect patients and the drivers are concerned that that could threaten their jobs in the future so you can put in this law will kill all small ambulance companies and big corporations will take over smaller companies like ours have invested a lot of money will disappear overnight no one will help us we're staying here as long as necessary we have nothing to lose any more loser could there where health company secretaries would come to support ambulance workers because if this all continuous will lose all jobs to there is less work for us every single day hospitals duty even have the right to coalesce and give us work the prime minister the governments will do nothing for us nothin

protesters demands including tax concessions the minimum wage rallies is our correspondent shallow due bensky in paris well hundreds if not to more than a thousand students have turned out for this protest today trying to have be yanked again thanks to the admission process is due to change here in france they say that that will become discriminatory for students from poorer backgrounds. this protest comes just hours after president michel gave a speech to the nation last night outlining his proposals trying to aim of the protests we've seen accounts and particularly the protests by the yellow prices would you be violent to the last summer weekends and this is what the president had to say to the nation and it was because of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros in twenty nineteen at no extra cost to employers over time will not be taxed and i will ask all employers to pay an end of year by in us this will not be taxed and there will be no social payments for pensioners receiving less than two thousand euros the tax increase will be cancelled as

reforms this follows a month of civil unrest over high taxes and rising fuel prices are controlled bensky was at tuesday's march in the french capital. well hundreds if not to more than a thousand students have turned out for this protest today not happy yet again thanks to the admission process is due to change here in france they say that that would become discriminatory from students from poorer backgrounds this protest comes just hours after president michel gave a speech to the nation last night outlining his proposals trying to aim of the protests we've seen particularly the protests by the yellow prices which are being violent to the last summer weekends and this is what the president had to say to the nation. because of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros in twenty nineteen at no extra cost to employers over time will not be taxed and i will ask all employers to pay an end of year bonus this will not be taxed and there will be no social payments for pensioners receiving less than two thousand euros the tax increase will be cancelled

third is still gravely ill the latest now from our europe correspondent peter oliver and charlotte do bensky. let's just bring you up to date with the latest figures on that two people have died in that attack which took place in strasburg last night a third person is said to have been severely injured in terms of brain injury and being pronounced brain dead and twelve other people have been injured various states including six of those who are said to be in such a critical condition it's not yet clear if they're going to be able to pull through from this attack we met relatives outside at the hospital so some people crying sitting down comforting each other just trying to get to grips of how this could happen yet again now the one family that we spoke to told us about one of the victims who was one of those killed in that attack saying to us that you know he'd gone to the christmas market with his family with his wife his three children and his wife had taken the children for a bathroom break and when they got back he had been shot really shocking horrible story they describe as being a won

correspondent peter oliver in berlin but first as a correspondent on the scene there in front charlotte do bensky been working on this all day charlotte last night you're outside the hospital in stroudsburg which has been dealing with the victims through some awful video circulator really upsetting if you can speak inside to some of the relatives to take us through it. that's right kevin we were outside the hospital just a little bit earlier we're currently outside the european parliament in strasburg a book outside the hospital we were speaking to some of the families and seeing people come to and from the hospital to visit their relatives their friends who were victims of this attack let's just bring you up to date with the latest figures on that two people have died in that attack which took place in strasburg last night a third person is said to have been severely injured in terms of brain injury and is essentially being pronounced brain dead and twelve other people have been injured various states including six of those who are said to be in such a critical condition it's not yet clear if th

begin esko tourist attraction as well we heard from lottie earlier on our correspondent charlotte do bensky saying she was only there two weeks ago and police were there patting people eccentric setter it's one thing to football odds up isn't it to stop trucks coming in ramming people or exploding it's another thing to try and filter everybody may have a metallic object or a gun or should everyone simply go through those metal detectors was the answer. i don't think there is an answer when you've got a large area of public space it's almost impossible to keep it totally free of weapons. especially if it's a temporary events so you've got an area that's normally got public access and then this event goes and sort of perches that there's opportunities to hide weapons within that zone so you know you don't have to carry them in so it's almost impossible to secure a large public event like this as you say we learnt from when the truck bombs sort of the truck attacks were used so you know these events will now have temporary or maybe even permanent. laurie title arts but of course they don't sto