is rebuke by the council of europe is the lightest headache for president emmanuel crohn whose dealing with strikes blockades and rallies across the country. on friday he also announced that a visit to franz by britons at king charles had to be postponed due to the unrest. this will be the only chance to meet britain's king charles in the french capital. in the coming weeks, his figure has been unveiled in a wax museum ahead of the monarchs now cancelled visit to paris with tensions over a pension reform on the rise. many in the street, well come, the move is for new or do we know have to block off half of paris at the moment because charles was visiting and i don't think so so. so they're both on the 1st name, michael simone. i don't think it's the right time for the king of england to come to paris miserable today. we're protesting against the pension reform and my car wouldn't be available for meetings with him. will i get put on police? arrested hundreds of protesters across the country on thursday. flight and rail traffic were disrupted, as many employees went on strike. in both d

it when i try and continue to be the problem solver as it sees itself to be french. president emmanuel crohn has finished a full day tour of africa. the visit was mine by protest. summit rising anti french sentiment in several countries with low who's done up against the former colonial power ortiz at noah. do you clunky reports? french president in manion micron has concluded his latest taught to africa where he attempted to dispel francis image as an arrogant, a former colonial power, while bidding for future influence within the african continent. but just ahead of microns arrival in kinshasa, some congolese demonstrated a gaze to his trip to their country outside the french embassy in kinshasa. the crowds accused micron of backing lawanda, which the d r. c claims is supporting the m $23.00 enables and east off the nation . oh, not during the visit to we saw a desire for profound change in relations with africa. though for years the france has been saying that it was the spirit of partnership and collaboration with african countries. but many don't see these plans coming to fruition becau

where the president there has defended his decision to force through unpopular pension reforms. emmanuel, my crohn says the changes which include raising the retirement age are necessary and he says he's prepared to be unpopular to implement them. his remarks come as angry, protest escalate across france. oh, in the southern french city, if nice talk of revolution is in the air. oh, outside the train station. protest is sing. ah, we're here even if macaroni doesn't want it. they say, while dozens occupy the tracks inside, blocking the line with a mascot of the french president, the architect of the pension reforms they so vim and li, oppose. but despite days of disruption and growing unrest across the country, emanuel micron seems determined to press on almost pause. i speak to you right now from do you think i enjoy implementing this reform? no, no, it's good. do you think i could have done the same as many others before me and sweep this under the carpet? yes, maybe. but there is one thing i regression. it's that we weren't able to get the message across of this reform is necessary music to mall

that's after french president emmanuel mac. crohn's government imposed a bill to reform pensions without a vase in parliament. the law would see the retirement age rise from 62 to 64 seamless protest took place in other cities across from coming out. next is out documentary series doc film. don't go with our interest the global economy, our portfolio d w business beyond. here's a closer look at the project. our mission.

a controversial pension reform. parisha have been cleaning up after intense protests against emmanuel by crohn, more demonstrations of plans in the coming days and a visit by britain.

ah, the government of fringe president emmanuel may crohn has narrowly survived a new confidence motion in parliament. the votes for triggered by opposition parties after the government pushed divisive pension and retirement reforms through without a vote in parliament plans have sport wireless for just across for yes, if you're not or corresponded in paris, lisa louis, at least it's good to see you again. explain why your, why the government it was expected to survive the new confidence vote, even though it could not muster a majority in parliament last week to pass this pension reform bill because it's 2 different things. really, you know, the, the law makers that are in the fakers away and the focus of attention were the republican, the conservative law makers. and that were supposed to vote in favor of the reform, but that not all of them agreed with that and followed their leaders lead really at last thursday. and that's why the government use the special constitutional power. but the government also knew that if they launched this, no confidence or, or if they had this now confide

controversial pension reform parisians have been cleaning up off the intense protests against emmanuel mack crohn after he bypassed parliament to enact the.

we saw was the end of last year. emmanuel mac crohn, re upon realization of the deteriorating relationship that his country as a former colonial power is having with the new wave of leadership here on the continent. coming out to say that he was to launch a new strategy to watch our friends world relate with africa. this quite all of that. it's still very much a no from more and more african countries. we've seen the french military troops being expelled in countries such as what gina fossil in miley, as the new military went up to a position with regards to those countries. and the french are finding themselves more and more with their back against the walls when it comes to how they relate to individual african countries. i mean, even the relationship that france has enjoyed with rwanda, for instance. what has been called into question following rwanda's abandonment of the french language as an official language in opting to use english instead. even earlier this year we heard miley in government going as far as to say that they believe that the french, when not only what they did not on

have taken over the center of paris to show their anger over pension reforms, forced 3 by emmanuel mc. crohn's government. deeply unpopular reforms have raised the retirement age by 2 years. president micron has so far refused to back down after narrowly surviving to know confidence votes in power. this is dw news from berlin. you can get more on our website, d, w dot com. ah, ah, shine is the support of russia invited me putin's invasion of ukraine is as strong as ever the chinese president made that clear to day in moscow of dashing any hopes of a possible peace sooner rather than later. at the same time, japan's prime minister arrived unannounced in ukraine with a message of solidarity for keep as it battles against its russian invaders. tonight from asia to europe, the global geopolitical dividing lines deeper the front, their clear japan in the west, russia, in china. i'm brazil from berlin. this is the day ah we continue to believe it's not in chinese.