they received the very friendly rhetoric from emanuel mccoy and they are clearly betting on france in leading europe and further away from the u. s. and are closer to china. i think that's what they want and, and to some degree it was now not successful, but i think from the tiny site this meeting was more successful than for the european side. all right, that was have been cut in beijing reporting for us. thank you. hundreds of thousands of people have joined another round of protests and strikes in france over the government's controversial pension plans. protestors want that want the deeply unpopular raising of the minimal retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00 to be scrapped. but french president william oak hall, absent on a trip to china, seems determined not to back down even with mach wrong thousands of kilometers away . paris is still burning. this time it was one of the french presidents, favorite restaurants in flames. as processed as again faced up with police over his pension reform ah, elsewhere in the french capital, striking railway workers took aim at another target and

last week. french president emanuel mccoy has wrapped up the state visit to china. the trip has been marked by his repeated calls to chinese leaders shooting thing to help end of the war in ukraine. but trade has also been a major focus of the visit as rob mcbride explains. president emmanuel macaroni has been wrapping up this 3 day state visit with a trip to the city of one joe, the main manufacturing and exporting hub of southern china. and it's, of course, the business aspect of this visit, what you're seeing is extremely important to china, to france, and the why to you, especially given the souring of relations between china and the united states. a number of deals have been signed and possibly an indication of the importance china attaches to this visit. macaroni has been a company to go on, jo by his chinese counterparts, president she jane ping. it's highly unusual for she to accompany a visiting head of state beyond their 1st official meetings in beijing. but today, hoping, holding more talks more meetings with entrepreneurs and investors ending this visit

mccoys on a 3 day state visit the china. robert bride reports french president emanuel macro been given the honor of a state visit. welcome by his chinese counterpart, she jim paid one of your most influential leaders coming to ask china to exert its influence on russia to bring an end to europe's worst conflict. since world war 2 is sick, was conditional. who, what the you, i know that i can count on you to bring russia to reason. and every one to the negotiating table is this was she jane paying visiting russian president vladimir putin last month since moscow's invasion. more than a year ago, jane had stayed neutral and proposed a roadmap for a cease fire and peace talks. most western leaders, including macro, have criticize the plan, but the french president has been one of the more conciliatory voices among nato heads of state. 2 weeks before russia's invasion, he met president vladimir putin in the kremlin, under spoken to him several times by phone over the past year. many and now watching to see if macaroni and she together can provide a breakthrough, where others have failed goals on kinship check. china