from the authorities following weeks of violent protests let's get more on the story national charlotte pinsky joins us from paris and good evening t. charlotte just tell us what exactly was said and what has been the reaction. well not a good start for the year again for president who seen the latest rating show that seventy five percent of french people disapprove of him that's despite all the concessions he tried to offer the yellow vest movement over the last month or so to try and quell that movement and now as his cabinet met for the first time in two thousand and nineteen that was one of the things that they were discussing on their agenda and post that we had the press secretary for president describing the yellow best movement as something that is now full of agitators who are looking to overthrow the government. since the announcements of the manual the yellow vests have become a movement of agitators who want insurrection and to overthrow the government moreover those who call for debate don't want to participate in the great national debate. well that's not really something new it'

thousands of people blocking roads and clashing with police across the country now correspondent charlotte pinsky was in the thick of the unrest. play . outside the streets of the entrance of at least a bird's eye you can see it's a guest speaker by the police that's how the protesters were trying to enter into that street to get close that seriously at least a cut lip. i . i i i i could difficult getting my eyes right down that's because we've just been in the midst of all of this to you guys as you can see it basically eyes red it is really hard to win them and at the moment they are just a good thing uncontrollable. playing live please coming to. the stop the streets. if you absolutely have. to be crazy on the streets of. live. live. i believe last week there were about five thousand six hundred police officers here this weekend eight thousand in price alone a good mood city gas that being deployed is precisely to try and clear the much of the street where they would cause any damage around the just took a look at this piece to gas going everywhere. rubber bullets being deployed each. very clo

is the ninth consecutive weekends but this is not going to stop this is going to continue or charlotte pinsky reporting there it wasn't only the french capital of the experience protests on saturday thousands took to the streets unarmed with police deploying tear gas there on the crowds and in leon hundreds marched to pay tribute to the victims of the protests at the end they released yellow balloons and laid flowers to all of the. u.s. government shutdown moved into its twenty third day becoming the longest in the history of the country and this week has seen accusations flying back and forth between democrat leaders and donald trump. democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis president trump mustapha holding murtha people hostage might stop manufacturing a crisis stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration and must reopen the government the federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only because democrats will not fund border security no president should pound the table and demand he gets his way or else the government shu

its ninth week so let's cross live now to show it to pinsky because with the public debate already launched by taking place across france charlotte is that in a time where debate is due to take place i could see. an hour ago the atmosphere seemed quite feisty. yes it still being fast in fact in the last hour we've seen the crowds as usual for just as i get a stroke there's probably a few hundred between two hundred fifty maybe three hundred fifty have come here and that every point in this roundabout they are being stopped by the security forces for removing in fact in the last hour one group actually. made a run for it they ran up the road and it looks like they were attempting to enter. the town over bush to hold troy and get closer to the action president michael is here in the town today to launch that national debate these debates are to take place across france his opportunity to listen to the concerns of people people couldn't say what they concerns of the internet they can take part in the debates and he's saying that this could change the new contract with the people here in france but yes we've already seen the groups t