experts who say it will make the problem worse let's go to our part as correspondent for more charlotte dubin ski charlotte i suppose from the outside looking in here it seems like a a noble effort to protect children what why is it causing such outrage. well you may remember back in march there was a big hoo ha off to france announced a new law that was aimed to being sexual violence and sexism and it contained in that little function is going to put in the statute books for the first time and age of consent in france not age of consent was going to be a fifteen and not was because there was much outcry over two particular cases in which eleven year old girls were deemed not to have been raped by adult men because when the incident had taken place they were not subject to constraints threats of violence or surprise so the age of consent was put in that you all but now the law has been revised and the age of consent at fifteen has been moved that has angered many critics who say that this is now a watered down law which is being debated by the national assembly in france on tuesday and also s

the bloc bloc activists torched cars and shop fronts and clashed with police our correspondent charlotte dubin ski was in the thick of it. in the middle of cashews now starting the police don't want to live in the kind of that you'll see the tear gas is coming up to us the police move again i'm not because just behind us there is a going on the demonstrators have put forward to every kill and a motor bike and as you can see smoke. 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 firm 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 more will come with me to have a look this you may see this big o

two hundred people were arrested with more on the riots we're joined live now on the program to charlotte dubin in part charlotte still people of course there behind you it looks a lot quieter just bring us up to date out about what you saw at the rally and indeed the fallout the reaction to this scene. well some of the violence that we saw during the may day protests was some of the most violent scenes i've seen in paris in the last fifteen months or so it's been described as the most violent may day riots in fifty years since those demonstrations back in may nine hundred sixty eight which is infamous here in france we understand that more than one hundred people remain in custody and they were two hundred arrests on tuesday now the police say the majority of that violence was carried out by around one thousand two hundred fluxbox as they know it also known as anti capitalist anti fascist so. leftist militants they caused a huge amount of violence here in the city they've been criticized from across play political spectrum including by. the interior minister who has said that the right to demo

say it will make the problem worse let's get into this story now and go live to a part of the charlotte dubin ski hi there charlotte talk us through why this is causing such outrage. well in march france announced that it was going to legislate. sexual violence down on sexism and included in that legislation was due to be in egypt consent to sexual activity in france not age consensual sex to be fifteen and the reason that element of the law was putting because there was outrage after she cases emerged of eleven year old girls who we did. not to have been raped by adult men because they don't think the first they don't been threatened there had been no violence all surprised when that incident had taken place well now the law is being debated in the national assembly on tuesday and that element the age of consent to fifteen has now been taken out of this nor critics say that that mean it's been watered down that it was less protection for children and actually creates new legal loopholes for child rapists this is what they've said. i think you have to occur and you are to go to child abuse co

a lot of people as you can see there on the streets more than forty dollars and it's thought charlotte dubin ski is among them for us so the police have just moved into the basti area which is the end part of the protest that they have started making what seem to me some arrests so far that's often some of the protesters damaged of van you might be able to see in the distance smashing the screen and they also attempted to set it on fire there all around two thousand john goma police out in clueless in paris today to try and keep the violence at this protest to a minimum after the violence that was witnessed on the may day protests on tuesday when almost she one hundred people or so who were arrested from a ground to a crowd of around one thousand two hundred ultra militant leftists as they were described by the police now you may be able to see behind me some of the people who cover their faces they generally people who describe themselves as being anti capitalist anti fascist and they don't want to see and identified many of the people came here to protest against the policies of the my own

in just keep a lookout we saw some people were looking injuries there while you were speaking charlotte dubin ski live from paris this story charlotte thank you. now across the channel from france almost a year on from the grand fell fire in london which seventy two people died a public inquiry has officially been launched it opened with emotional testimony from victims' families and survivors one of whom spoke of how his son was stillborn just hours after the tragedy please be aware that you might find some of the following video upsetting to watch. so i held my son. hoping. it's what i treat my wife. she's made of the hottest the serial. killer for strength coach will be. more survivors will be given the recall and sun till the end of the month or so the probe will then look into wider issues like the government's response time on preventative actions and you're a cheater has been to meet locals who say they're frustrated how little has changed it's almost been a year since the devastating blaze and what's left of the grenfell tower can be seen here behind the scaffolding it's a harrowing r

charlotte dubin ski has details. many people see these two parties who are from the left and the right side of the political spectrum as being quite radical parties they're anti establishment they're anti e.u. and already that leaked document and its details have caused some jitters on the stock market with many investors selling off their italian assets when those leaks were put online so what's in the document what's causing this fixation they want to leave the single currency that would mean quitting the euro they also want the european central bank to write off some of italy's debts with two hundred and fifty billion euros they also talk about russia and relate.

victory the heavy police sings a result of may day rallies turning violent earlier this week charlotte dubin ski is in the french capital. thousands of people have come onto the streets of paris today to protest against several of the policies of the mocking governments that have been instigated over the last year we have people from the public service you are here because you are unhappy with the fact that mcconnell said one hundred twenty thousand jobs in the public service to be cut in his five year term in office we've gone the way we are because you are here because they're unhappy with the real can i say shit that's been announced over the s.n.c.f. that's the way ways here in france they say it's the first step towards privatized nation and that they can and should lose many of the benefits from my job so they've had they're also students who are out here because they're unhappy again with the changes that are being made to the way that students will be selected for universities no longer will they just be able to apply and go to the universities they want to they will be selection and

on hurled smoke grenades more than two hundred protesters were arrested and our correspondent charlotte dubin ski was there. fundamental question is now starting the police already tonight we're looking for you'll see the tear gas is coming up to us the police move again and not because just behind us there is a fire going on the demonstrators have put forward two of really cool and a bunch of bike but as you can see i don't smoke because it. 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 jedi c.p.d. fact it's still own foyer over there in the distance the process is did is if you just turn around a little bit more will come with me to have a look this you may

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 criticism over president he's currently only official tool of a stray some people saying the president shouldn't have left france when they was so much social and ease here he has hit back saying what did you expect me to sit at home and watch it on t.v. but the violence by the black books as a say some of the worst that i've seen in paris take a look at what unfolded on may day in the mid

movement on right wing northern league came together in a populist alliance unprecedented for europe charlotte dubin ski has more. well it's been two and a half months around about since those elections took place in italy and it's taken all this time for the two parties that's leg and the five star movement from the left and the right of the spectrum to come together to form what they would like to do which is to create a coalition government with the leaders of those parties have been meeting with the italian president today putting forward this name of the person that they would like to be the next tallon prime minister well his name is just picante he was put forward as a candidate by five star movement and the league who both said that they wanted him to be the next italian prime minister what do we know about him well not very much we know that he's a professor of law and he's also the author of the five star movement justice program during the election but he is the man that will now lead italy possibly over the next few years where the two parties a five star movement and leg came together d

earlier released the video allegedly showing me attacker plagiary agents to the terrorist group charlotte dubin ski as more knowledge. first. here in the us. discontentment on the streets violent confrontations force used to subdue protestors this is from it's one thing to mock one's first term in office twelve months ago call it stood here to much fun fact he had just won the election he was riding on high little did he know perhaps that his real battle was just about to begin reforming the working code provoked a backlash that pushed ahead of workers went on strike today for everything he's done to benefit the rich to give funds and subsidies to big companies the multinationals. is an old true liberal who thinks his bosses are his friends but on about the small people say yes at that he's against everyone who works against the pensioners against and students. some also argue that much corn has consolidated the concentrated power and by hand picking his m.p.'s who now have outright control of the national assembly he has ensured that his way is the only way and. even cross routes members of hi

pattern in recent months starts peaceful then turned into the scenes that we've been looking at charlotte dubin ski live in paris blank charlotte. now in the latest in a series of diplomatic breakthroughs on the korean peninsula the north is preparing to destroy its only known nuclear site later this week but the u.s. is still making grim predictions for the north korean leader if it doesn't sign off on a deal painting he could follow the fate of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi . this will only like the libyan model ended if kim jong un doesn't make a deal some people saw that as a threat well i think it's more of a fact referring to libya let's remind ourselves what happened to libyan leader colonel gadhafi in return for economic aid and sanctions really he agreed to abandon his nuclear ambitions back in two thousand and three but within a few years he was overthrown and killed as a result of a nato led bombing campaign this is being somewhat of a warning to p.r. and in fact it's not the first time washington is drawing a parallel between kim and gadhafi yeah i think that's what denucle

police earning smoke grenades and destroying cars and property with more on what unfolded here charlotte dubin scheme. the violence in paris is being described as the worst may day riots in fifty years more than one hundred people remain in custody and there were more than two hundred arrests on tuesday police saying the violence was committed by a group of one thousand two hundred black blocks here. they're also notice on anticapitalist ultra leftist militants. who destroyed parts of the city the police forces him paris of come under fire people saying that they were slow to react and the reason that people are saying that is that just come over here and you'll be able to see the bullets 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

charlotte dubin ski is in the french capital and got caught up in violence. what we've seen is the protest is over some of them trying to smash some of the buildings along the street where they were marching the police came in straightaway we had some sort of fireworks and what looked to be like a moment of cooked i can't say definitely was but there was certainly an explosion and then we saw the police and then displacing tear gas. if you just look now you might see the police are in the distance you've got some of the well known as being the black box here in france they are covered with their faces that's because they don't want to be identified and you might be able to see that they are throwing items to wards the police and now we have had to guess it you know this is only one police officer and many injured in clashes with those protests is the guy says oh she's throwing paint at the police. i just look behind me to see the tear gas that's been spreading over the pieces they want to move the protesters away to try and still the troops from gathering to

camped out along the route it's a problem many had hoped would have eased over the last year the charlotte dubin school reports. president machen had pledged that by the beginning of two thousand and eighteen no one would be sleeping rough on the streets of france let alone her and yet not only did he fail to deliver on the promise but it's getting worse much worse it's believed that up to one thousand eight hundred migrants have set up camp along the canal here in paris and fears that that could explode to around two and a half thousand in the next few weeks has caused the organizers of the great race to graham paris to cancel the annual event. the ten kilometer race between paris and song to me was to take place in just over a week's time but this is part of where the run is supposed to come through and as you can see it would be virtually impossible for them to navigate this section of the racecourse these makeshift camps are growing day by day the route is impossible it is disturbing to have to run the race in the middle of a refugee camp at last year's race around six and a half thousand pe

speaking were from previous rallies there in the french couple charlotte thanks so much from charlotte dubin ski in morris. there is a grim new assessment of progress for the united states in its drawn out mission in afghanistan government auditor's see efforts of stalled out best and worst are feeling here's a quarter if you think that after sixteen years the u.s. led mission in afghanistan would finally have something to show for its trouble well here's how the federal authority tasked with overseeing reconstruction sees it . between two thousand and one and two thousand and seventeen years government efforts to say be licensed secure in contested areas in afghanistan mostly failed the us government greatly overestimated its ability to build and reform government institutions in afghanistan a pretty clear picture from cigar the top brass in washington though wants to assure you they have everything under control now looking at a twenty eighteen as president gandhi said he believes we have turned a corner and i agree the momentum is now with the afghan security forces and the taliban cannot

charlotte dubin ski has details. many people see these two parties who are from the left and the right side of the political spectrum as being quite radical parties they're anti establishment they're anti e.u. and already that leaked document and its details have caused some jitters on the stock market with many investors selling off their italian assets when those leaks were put online so what's in the document what's causing this fixation they want to leave the single currency that would mean quitting the euro they also want the european central bank to write off some of italy's debts with two hundred and fifty billion euros they also talk about russia and relations with the country between russia and the e.u. saying that they want to scrap the sanctions that are currently in place against russia and want to see russia as being a trading partner and not a threat and also quite crucially they want to revise the e.u. migration rules that currently exist which means that migrants have to apply for permission to stay i

capital turned violent as mass demonstrators burned cars and hurled smoke grenades correspondent charlotte dubin ski was caught in the crossfire between protesters and police who were deploying tear gas and water cannon. well all come for the moment however those clashes we saw between the police and the protests have been some of the most remote functionalists intense clashes i've seen in the last fifteen months or so in france i just want to give you a sense of what sort of damage has been created from those are clashes and not just clashes but the damage that was caused by the protest is the police had warned early on tuesday morning ahead of these may day protests that they thought they were going to be hijacked by anti capitalists by anti fascists and they were indeed that they came out in their hundreds ready with a gear their safety gear to be able to protect themselves from the tear gas the masks just have a look at this is one of the vehicles that they burned still smoking there and just behind it the plumes of smoke that came up from this vehicle huge promptly mz of smoke that went up

a spin off because finnish other dubin skates charlotte to other european latest skepticism of her relations with the us. a yes there has been some concern over relations with the u.s. as a result of president trump saying that he was pretty much ripping up the usas involvement in that arena nuclear deal we've been hearing from a french president today saying that europe anonymous make its own choice and not follow others he talked about that deal being put together a few years ago to build peace and stability in the middle east and then quite pointedly said in relation to the us that other powers have decided not to respect their own woods we know that the u.k. france and germany are all going to send ministers to meet with representatives from iran on monday to discuss keeping that deal together because they feel it's that important also been hearing from the german chancellor angela merkel who's talked about the fact that as a result of the usa stepping aside from this deal that europe will now have to face greater responsibility a greater role when it comes to securing peace and politica

dubin skee live from chorus. there were crossed back to charlotte in the coming hours this is a story a very interesting one there are nuff opioids it has been found in the waters off seattle on the west coast of america but shellfish have tested positive for the drugs scientists say it reflects the high number of people in the surrounding area who take the substance take a listen but what we eat and what we excrete goes into the puget sound telling me that there's a lot of people taking up to code on and you know in the puget sound area it's coming likely from the wastewater treatment plants so what was done was clean muscles were put into more than a dozen locations on three of the areas who were later confirmed to be contaminated waste water management cannot filter out the opioids the muscles are unable to metabolize to drugs but other sea life can and may become addicted now this is the first time scientists have discovered the drugs in shellfish there and believe it highlights the extent of the nationwide opioid epidemic in the u.s. there has been more than two hundred thousand prescription overdose deaths