in france an apparent arsonist has attacked the home of a top politician and ally of president emanuel mccrum national assembly head rashad say wrong shared photographs on his twitter account of his scorched living room and said police found material soaked in gasoline alterations across the political spectrum including the president have condemned the incident. french authorities have made no immediate link between the arson attack and violence in paris today as police clashed with demonstrators from the yellow vest movement protests have been taking place every weekend since mid november there may be fewer people protesting but the movement shows no signs of slowing down. thousands of yellow vests protesters take to the streets of paris for the thirteenth weekend in a room and a little bit of blood isn't going to get in their way one man he was badly injured last month is back demonstrating again whether you believe in the ideas of the yellow vest protests are not there's a real problem with democracy in france today because when you don't speak out well you lose a knife and that's a proble

began and saturday saw over forty thousand turnouts nationwide to vent their anger over president emanuel mccrum policies. move. clashes between activists and police broke out in a number of cities away from paris including no it's only in paris those protesters said that the violence by late afternoon yesterday is of course. you might just be able to see in the distance that we've got protesters who are throwing what appeared to be rocks towards if you just turn the camera around towards this line of security forces over here this is being a pretty much a cat and game cats and mouse game going on between the two with the police responding then with tear gas you might just see a couple more of those rocks landing there to wards the police forces as they coming the protesters here thousands of them we've got some me he's burning an e.u. flag right in front of us here many of these illusions don't like the european union either but those rocks now projectiles being thrown quite forcibly against the police and you can see now the. thing into would surface with what looks like here this pallets goin

earlier president emanuel mccrum paid tribute to victims of anti jewish bigotry at the holocaust memorial in the french capital. these are the images fueling the outrage the jewish cemetery in the village of quotes in haim in the sophs defaced with swastikas and other anti-semitic graffiti mccall has vowed to bring the vandals to justice and stamp out anti-semitism. a group of individuals full of hates has unfortunately done what others have done before for too many years. i'm hits for expressive of solidarity of a whole nation of ours shame to see this. of our detachment will to be together in moments when some of us are injured it would you answer express our complete determination in fighting and he semitism what have a shape it takes. france has the highest jewish population in europe estimated at more than half a million but the country has struggled to prevent violence against them figures released just last week show there were over five hundred anti-semitic attacks in france in twenty eighteen a seventy four percent increase over twenty seventeen this anti semitism is a daily occu

yellow vest protesters turn out for thirteen consecutive weekends to condemn the policies of emanuel mccrum government . bus among that week.