tricky is not happy with france. france is quite cross. the tuturkish mamade serious incursions in syria. particularly not happy with the u.s. this is the 70th anniversary summit of nato. it should be a cause for celebration, but there is criticism of the body coming from all sides. benedicte: indeed. the summit proper actually starts tomorrow. it is just outside london. tensions.all kinds of there is sentiment from the french president. the german chancellor quite .ritical the french president is very much in favor. going forward, what is going to be the use of artificial intelligence? what does nato concentrate on? it will be interesting if the world leaders going to to theham palace will go big celebration, while there will be protests outside against nato. it will be interesting to see if there can be any more common ground found. genie: thank you for that. we will check back with you tomorrow to get the latest on the nato summit in london. donald trump's trip to london comes as u.s. house democrats are set to publicly release a report

but it still falls short of saudi arabia's original target hundreds of thousands of people across france are walking off the job 1st 2nd day and 1st day of protests turned violent in some cities demonstrators are angry at president rabbani micron's planned pension reforms but worried the changes would force them to work for more years and reduce payouts straightly and firefighters are struggling to contain massive bushfires and circling sydney the fire service commissioner said they're particularly concerned about 8 fires now to merge and sea levels more than $600.00 homes have been destroyed as the headlines the news continues here in al-jazeera after inside story. they've been bringing the whole thing is a political deadlock since the threats that referendum on the table still to be divided will the general election on december the 12th anything that can boris johnson get the rx it done and where does the u.k. go from here follow the u.k. general election. trains and busses at a standstill schools and businesses closed workers in front stage one of the biggest strikes in decades furiou

you are starting in france. the country is getting ready for these massive strikes, land this thursday to protest government pension reforms. as that is happening, another protest is already blocking petrol supplieies in wesrnrn francece. brian: representatives of the french conststruction industry have been blocking major fuel depots since friday. managers and workers using heavy equipment to cut off access to at least four sites in the western region of brittany. gas stations either closed or lined with customers over the weekend amid shortages. proposal bynce ---- a the gogovernment to end the tax-free status of diesel fuel for non-transportation uses. industry representative have been invited to the finance ministry for talks. they said they will keep up the blockade until the plan is scrapped. it's going to cost us money, and i have employees. i respect them. i want them to get paid. they get bonuses twiwice a year. i want that to continue. if i can't pay that, sooner or later, things will get rough. they h

yes france is of a winfrey country with the dead to vote on 2 other percent of its g.d.p. and one thing that could have got to move the region indeed up to the reform is the corrie boat. committee which is who are looking at the evolution of mentions and which mentioned that by 2025 there would be a very big diff is it and some measures need to be taken to the you know the 2 buttons 2 by 2025 who has 2000 what if i think is a story in which the new scheme to systemic reform should take place at the problem is that this confusion between 2 reforms at the same time one to one wants to go gently and the other one is about to just if you should of changing over warning completely different fanchon system from the need of 76 percent of french people are fake that the system needs to be. addison died 70 percent say back to movement and the reason why there is such an citee is because this reform isn't been clearly explained to government as a managed to convince people that it would be reform to make the system fairer and where most people will not loose and you haven't saved pe

they are all across france as well.will get a feel in the southern french city of toulouse with chris to for buckman, , who -- w with christopher buckman, o is just ououtside the airport. toulouse is france's fourth biggest city, today pre-much cut of from the rerest of the count. reporter: that's right. ?f you wanted to fly a anywheree if you wanted to take a train? you dedefinitelyly can't. [indndiscernible] genie: you can -- - porter: you can n go to the u.k. or i irela, but there are nott any internal flights. you have a situation where france is -- where toulouse is cut off from the rest of the country.y. the biggest employer here is airbus. all the employees were given a if theyyto work f from home could. a lot of them have taken the day to work from homome. airbus and all the o other prive sector compapanies h here are wondering what happens in the long-term if the strike does go on. genie: what is it like insiside the city of toulouse? isis everyone on strike inside e city as well? much of the public sector is o

france has urged nato to provide more support in the region are trees down one quarter looks into the challenges the french military is facing in easier and its other former colonies. africa has become a hotbed of terrorist activity as deadly attacks claiming hundreds of lives have spread like wildfire. europe will have 2 swords of damocles over its head terrorism and kidnappings but also illegal immigrants since many are traveling through this region following one of the deadliest attacks in niger or 70 people were killed by islamists the big players have even postponed a big summit to reconsider their efforts the president so france uneasier agreed to postpone the summit on operation by kanya on the joint chiefs on health force until early 2020 the 2 presidents a expressed their determination to remain united against terrorist groups and to redefine together in the coming weeks the political and operational framework for ensuring the security of the sa held countries france spends millions of euros and sends thousands of soldiers to control the situation there but with the region's

here's france minister for transport.very concrete guidelines on the new pension system. so i hope by the middle of next week we can make a very concrete progress with the unions in the strike will be over as soon as possible. one opinion poll put public support for the strikes at 70%, with backing strongest among 18 to 3a year olds. but another poll found that 75% of people thought that pension reforms were necessary, even if only a third believed the government could deliver them. for more on what's expected to happen next with these strikes, here's hugh schofield in paris. the unions and people who have organised this protest today will be very pleased with the result. it's true there have been some clashes, some violence on the fringes of the big demo here in paris right where i am standing, an awful lot of graffiti. some damage done to property but in general a fairly festive and above all very big demonstration of force by those opposing the pension reform plans. the question of course is what happens next. tomorrow

four and france twenty four .com. to be able to use welcome to a line from piracy on france twenty four i'm margot in these are the main world news headlines the country besieged by strike action the french government reveals the scale of its pension reforms workers before nineteen seventy five. will now not be affected farm workers will get a minimum pension guaranteed and the rest move onto a universal points based scheme this has kind of the strike is. the gap narrows between the two major parties with only a day left of campaigning in the uk election breaks it the main thing boris johnson the conservatives. future of the nhss. the german corporate and labor party support. thanks thanks to she tells the hey there's no genocide in brookline st. my mas de facto president faced the you in court is the crisis the dispsplaced o of a million people made a fatal military crackdown continues . thank you very much for being with us. pensions in front to o set to undergo a major reform announced this wednesday by the prime m

a court finds france telecom and its former c.e.o. guilty of moral harassment. this over a decade after several employees committed suicide as the company launched a massive restructuring program. we will have the very latest in our business update. also coming up in the next 60 minutes of the program, prayers notre n read in paparis' dame cathedral every christmtma for centuries, even during the horrors of the two world wars wars. but this december midnight mass won't be held in the church following this year's devastating fire. more on that coming up. tay tuned. british m.p.'s are gearing up to vote on the prime minister's bricksity deal this friday. with boris johnson promising to get this vote done and dusted before the christmas break. he said that his government's post to build a close build a relationship with the e.u. previous attempts to get this famous withdrawal agreement in westminster failed. but with the tories now enjoying a large majority, the blueprint could pass s more smoothly toda for more we head now to london and bring in our correspondent,

should we be allowed to sell arms to britain and france? on all the other proposals, americans stayed where they were. keep the neutrality legislation. don't change it to allow these pitfalls from becoming possible pitfalls in the next war. why did americans support changing the arms embargo? why did they support changing it for britain and france? the answer to that comes down to an almost universally negative view of nazi germany. it is hitler. it is hitler's behavior that americans are responding to. august of 1939, gallup asked the public, if hitler's claims against poland were justified. 86% said no. what he's demanding is wrong. if a war comes out of this, it will be his fault. then, a couple of weeks later when the war did begin, 82% of the american people said it was germany's fault. virtually no one blamed england or france or poland. it was germany's fault. they are the ones who started this. there is a clear-cut aggressor in this war. this is not a case of both sides. germany is at fault. germany is the aggressor. britain and fra

it did they support changing for britain and france? the answer to that comes down to a universally negative view of nazi germany. itler -- hitlerh that americans are responding to. al asked the public, if his claims against poland were justified. 86% said no. wrong.'s demanding is if a war comes out of this, it will be his fault. then, a couple of weeks later when the war began, 82% of the american people said it was germany's fault. virtually no one blamed england or france or poland. it was germany's fault. they are the ones who started this. there was a clear-cut aggressor in this war. this is not a case of both sides . germany is at fault. germany is the aggressor. written and france are defending the victim. so we don't actually feel neutral about that. same two sides are not the . there is a significant difference here. war it was an actual instead of a theoretical war, american opinion shifted a little bit. they still don't want to be involved in the war. they still want to avoid most of the mistakes that took place in the first

ferry services to mainland france have been suspended. have been evacuated from their homes. in the french alps, firefighters have been called into deal with landslides. these buses were stuck in some buildings have been washed away. residency the flooding is the worst they have ever seen. — residents say. there's also been flooding in the south of england. flights at gatwick airport have been disrupted and landslides have blocked some railway lines. overall, nearly 60 flood warnings are in place across the country. some areas have had 50 milimetres of rain in less than 48 hours. the disruption is all the result of two weather systems, storms elsa, and now storm fabien. tomasz schafernaker. in the bbc weather centre, has more on what's in store. the weather has been very unsettled, very stormy across western parts of europe for a few days now. this is a storm fabian here as it was slamming into the coast of france, also the coast of portugal as well. in some areas, winds are gusting 120, 140 kilometres per hour and through the course of e

of objects to african countries stop request them something france then promised it would start doing. dr saw france has pitched to return african artifacts by 20 twentieth's here are you satisfied with the progress. political point of view and what have been done is very few right france has promised to receive shoot after fax from billy republic just us to do what we give the reporter for the present we discussed with him when i went to have him in this discussion he said to start the process of course it's determined by resit you can do do the artifacts but until now i don't have no doubt they have made little progress because they have decided to to what to do it's do do you really have to say that the government radiates right to to host the artifacts because they need to bring in infrastructure etc on that point a lot of people who are opposed to the race issue should make a point or you want that africans would be able to look after the artifacts what do you make of that it's a very bad arguments what will the 1st thing we've done is that we have made an offer. a kind of statis

the france playbook is usually france is a country founded on revolts, so the playbook is that theseigh public support which then wanes as it gets violent. i think this one will go for longer because the unions negotiate most peoples' contracts. we have seen the protests over the last week or so, and we mentioned this caused chaos for commuters, but not just mentioned this caused chaos for commuters, but notjust commuters, it is for many, many people. some schools were closed, the eurostar flight, schools were closed, the eurostar flight, transport, everything was impacted by this. how long can the french government stay strong, do you think? the economic impact is serious. the french retail consortium has warned the next two weekends are going to be the biggest of the year, and retailers rely on decemberfor of the year, and retailers rely on december for 20% of sales. hotel bookings are down by io%. this is being taken very seriously and we will have to see if the government concedes. do you think there will be some compromise in the end? concedes. do you think there will be some com

or for france or the companies at stake.ways said that it solution.r the oecd europe would take the initiative at its own level. if there is some retaliation from the u.s., europe has said it would be backing up france. we still hope there is some room for discussion and that we can find a solution. he said that europe has been backing up france and wants a global solution, but friendly, you guys are not the only ones going through with the unilateral tax. cedric: other countries have been [indiscernible] all right -- austria has already passed a law. it wants attacks on digital companies. -- a tax on digital companies and is favoring the oecd solution. we need to create that level , the best is on an international level. taylor: you really feel that europe is behind you? cedric: i think that was voiced by the european commission on .rade back in france it would favor and international solution. at the end of the day if we have to go with that discussion, then europe would be backing france. taylor: i want to go back to the

nobody needed nato more than france.ly, the one that benefits really the least is the united states. that's why i think when france makes a statement like they made it nato, it's a very dangerous statement. >> kaitlan, he also said he sees france breaking off from nato. that's a huge statement to make. >> it's a stunning role reversal. normally it's president trump making comments like that and other leaders at a nato gathering criticizing the president for threatening the alliance. we're here marking the 70th anniversary and you're seeing this role reversal with trump, the one who is making those comments about something the french leader said. but a lot of this has to do with two things. macron's criticism had to do with president trump. he was saying it was in part because president trump. you could no longer rely on the president to be this unwavering ally. so less of a direct -- less of a criticism broadly of nato and more one that was focused on the united states and on president trump. two, you also cannot ignore

you have a high unemployment rate in france. france is not doing well economically at all. they are starting to tax people's products. we're doing their wines and everything else. it's a tough statement when you look at france. you look at the yellow vests or what's going on during certain parts of their season. they've had a rough year. and you can't make statements like that about nato. it's disrespectful. >> the department of justice secretary-general's report and it's been reported that the attorney general disagrees with that conclusion? >> i don't know. i haven't seen it. we have a great attorney general. he didn't need this job. he wanted to do something great for the country. he was a very successful. picked a great company -- he left. picked a great company to work for. he didn't need the job. he's doing a great job. i have not seen the report. i think he was quoted incorrectly. i'm hearing that the report is powerful. from reading different things, i think we have to wait for it to be released. we have to read it and see it. i hear there's devastating things in th

member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey but it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria response only up the ante so. i'm talking to france's president emanuel macron also say that nato 1st of all have your own brain death checked. as for the u.k.'s boris johnson well there's a lot of us are a gathering could not have come at a worse time. for boris is clearly invested in maintaining the special relationship with the us he knows that a loose lips trembled giving a glowing endorsement could be catastrophic donald trump is coming to terms very shortly he offered his support for you and indeed for michael ignatieff for rush on this radio station is that welcome what he what we don't do traditionally as as loving allies and friends what we do traditionally is is get involved in each other's election campaign he did when nato was forms the common goal was clear to stand against the u.s.s.r. but i think that once held the

and france really has further soured relations between the 2 countries. the saudi king has invited katter's emir to attend the annual summit of gulf states in riyadh next week the g.c.c. summit is shuttle to take place on december 10th saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates along with egypt imposed an air land and sea blockade on qatar in june 20173 boycotting gulf states have also sent their football teams to play in the ongoing arabian gulf cup in qatar. a top european human rights official is demanding the immediate closure of a makeshift camp on bosnia herzegovina as border with croatia hundreds of refugees and migrants a stranded there in freezing conditions and there are fears of a humanitarian crisis nicol a gauge of guilt. inside this temporary camp near the bulls me in town of. migrants huddle around a fire to keep warm with temperatures dropping they're facing freezing conditions little food and an uncertain future for people very. big problem there are barely any facilities for the hundreds of people who've been here since the camp w

this is day 12 of france's nationwide strike and we learned the architect of france's controversial pensioneform has resigned. he had been accusesed of havinga conflict of interest. hong kong's carrie lam gets new backing from china in the face of ongoing pro-democracy protests. lebanon hit by a second night of violent antigovernment demonstrations, people trying to get rid of a political elite they say is corrupt. it i is time now for thehe latet business news. the u.s. and china have reached an interim deal aimed at ending ththe ongoing trade war but it doesn't mean the talalks are ovr just yet. >> a phase one deal provivides some respite but it is only a step. tariffs haveve been ncnceledutua bulk of tariffs remain in place. the two sides s have yetet to fd an agreeeement but are already looking ahead to the next phase negotiations which could kick off other lingering protests. >> u.s. and china negotiators were enthusiastic about the first phase one, partial deal since the trade war began a year and a half ago. as president donald trump has stressed, trade tensions are not over. >> the

david: more taif ires in france -- tariffs in france coming up after the show, but talking usmca for a second. they say nancy pelosi is holding up trade deal, canadian prime minister trudeau appeared more hopeful today it will passat nato summit. >> we had a lot of great conversations about how we'll move forward to benefit workers in all 3 of our countries, we're confident we'll be able to get there, i know ambassador lighthizer, and deputy prime minister free land and the mexican negotiators are engaged closely on this issue, we're hopeful we will have good news soon. david: hopeful, will we det a deal before the election shin. >> a great example of how a politician is speak in diplomatic form. trudeau has said nothing. i am canadian, i can just request againsagainst him, he t. the president does relate more to people, he speaks more off of cuff, we heard nothing, hopeful, what does that mean. usmca, nancy pelosi is in a tough spot, either she denies president's win or does not go ahead and seen as not going forward with congress. >> the politicians are playing politics. you are ri

acting he gladly take to any k. yeah but its use welcome to live from piracy on france twenty four i'm margot in these looming world news headlines. us should inquire he says there is overwhelming evidence. drunken face foformal charges agagainstt the against himself these include a abuse of power bribery and obstruction of justice and the committee chair adam schiff says. other members of congress could also be implicated. tension between michael and trump at the nato summit hopefully thihis annnnoue conflicting versions o of the future of the alliance untrue blade into my dad translate into m macro over his brain dead remark. french president aimed at the us leader. schools intensified by the prime minister of malta to resign joseph muscat is allegedly linked to a suspect in the murder of an investigative reporter that make kind of wanna galaxia . overwhelming evidence to impeach the us president the report by the u. s. impeachment viruses donald trump place personal interest about that of the united states. it'll call centers on the allegations trump tried to push ukraine to investi

in france paralyze the entire country to say no to a proposed pensions reform. and saudi arabia prepares for the world's biggest i.p.o. the national oil company will sell $25600000000.00 in shares what are they worth to . program the u.s. trade deficit dropped to its lowest level in nearly one and a half years in october according to the commerce department the trade bill fell 7.6 percent to $47200000000.00 as both imports and exports declined this could be a direct consequence of donald trump's america 1st policy which has seen several tariff disputes including a trade war with china the trade deficit with china fell about one percent to 30 $1300000000.00 imports remained unchanged white house has accused some of the u.s. most important trading partners including brazil argentina and the european union of manipulating their currencies at the expense of u.s. manufacturers. in new york is standing by with more thank you very much for joining us reducing the trade deficit as we know was one of donald trump's big goals is his trade policy working. well at least for

dr saw france has paid to return african artifacts by the get 2020 c. are you satisfied with the progress. political point of view and what have been gone is very few. france has promised to receive shoot artifacts from the 1000000000 republic just asked to do what to give the report to the french president we discussed with him one hour and a half and indeed in this discussion he said to start the process of course it's driven by the true can do do did after facts but until now i don't have no doubt they have made little progress because they have said to to what to do it's do. we have say that the government took over yeah it's right to to host the artifacts because they need to bring in infrastructure etc on that point a lot of people who are opposed to the race issue should make a point or you want that africans would be able to look after the artifacts what do you make of that it's a very bad arguments what will the 1st thing we've done is that we have made an offer. a can of statistics of african musicians under this hour we found 500 museums in s

sharing your insights with us here in france twenty four. your now in keeping with tradition this friday in menu and michael is celebratingg christstmas with french soldiers posted abroad and this year the president and his wife have trouble to ivory coast this as paris seeks to strengthen regional tiess against islamist militantss during the forty eight township michael's also meeting with several french soldiers who took part in an anti terrorist operation in money back in november with thirteen men lost their lives let's take a listen to him. speaking good idea. thanks not get anything done is an essential mission for france. i do think we will continue to fight against the hottest. and we will continue to do so alongside our african partners. are european and international partners. citizens also die i would like for the region which he had to say if you push so come to pool on january thirtieth other guys you to meet with the awful. and re clara county facility clinical and strategic. thank you for the body can mission of the us from ba

in france violent clashes blocked roads and just to transport services as a nationwide strike against the government's pension reform spills into days of protests. we saw the. fire and they got to the gas really coming quite close to us and you might get a sense of it just down to actually can see that more cheer gas coming down each of the protesters trying to move people away. nato 70th anniversary so much exposes new divisions within the block where the viral hope mike video from a bench showing world leaders apparently mocking president donald trump. and a new investigation wants the free dating app so just don't safeguard users from convicted sex offenders guess debated whether where the responsibility to protect women lies we need the companies to take a moral stance or at least have some sort of responsibility you can't trust these companies to tell you there's good news bad you need to take that into your own hands. hello i'm resigned a low could bring you the weekly here on our team to national sank you for joining us. now the f.b.i. is presuming the pensacola naval base shoo

they're not going to be taxed by france. so if france is going to put a tax on, it was totally out of the blue. he had the idea to let's take those companies. they're american companies. i'm not going to let people take advantage of american companies. if anybody will take advantage of the american companies, it's going to be us. it's not going to be france. >> neil: just to be clear, we tax foreign companies that do business in this country. what the president finds unfair in this particular case, he says they're targeting american technology companies with a digital tax that he says is not fair and balanced and something the french don't have to pay. democratic strategists here. susan, he's saying enough is enough on this digital tax thing. he was going to take it out on french wine makers and those that produce all of that fancy cheese. where are we going with this? >> i think he's making an example of france. you have austria, italy and turkey waiting in the wings that have presented their own taxes very similar to franc

and france.ying, we will abandon our digital tax if you can get 132 people to agree to something. taylor: how does the u.s. respond to protect our entrepreneurial spirit in the tech sector? laura: that is something we are waiting to hear about today. the u.s. trade representative has been looking at this. several months ago, they opened up this investigation to see if there should be some sort of trade reaction. they are looking at tariffs, some way to punish france to say, look, if you will do this to our tech companies, we will do something to some of your products. president trump in the past talked about tariffs on french wine, for example. we do not know exactly will be in this report. it will be a 90 day waiting period with comments and back and forth. the u.s. is seriously looking at starting a tit-for-tat battle here. taylor: it is notable that they are not ruling out -- -- ruling out breaking up big tech. how would you do that in the e.u.? laura: they are trying to figure out, where woul

france relationship. well i think there's no doubt that this is going to sour the relationship between not just the united states and france but also the united states and europe you we've already heard from the french finance minister bruno saying that these kinds of tariffs walls as he calls them carried out by the united states are simply unacceptable that they will be a very strong e.u. response and there are several you countries that are also considering a similar kind of digital services tax as the one that france is going to put in place such as spain u.k. and italy so they'll be watching this very closely indeed because there is a real feeling in the european union that these big tech companies simply have too much power and they are not regulated well interesting also to look at a little bit further along in the day when the french president tomorrow michael actually meets donald trump because of course trump there at that nato summit in london certainly made many personal attacks on emanuel mac

president has france committed to that? >> asked the president today we have a tremendous amount of captured fighters, isis fighters over in syria. they are all under lock and key, but many are from france, many are from germany, many from the uk. mostly from europe. so the countries are agreeing, i haven't spoken to the president about that, would you like some nice isis fighters? i can give them to you. you can take everyone you want. >> this number fighters on the ground. i have spiders coming from syria and many other countries. i think number one priority is to get rid of isis. this is our number one priority. i'm in syria more and more the whole position of the regime makes the position more difficult to take. second, some of the foreign fighters are being in iraq. it will be case-by-case. don't make any mistake, the number one for our fighters is the isis. and you have more and more fighters during due to the situation. >> this is why your great politician. that's what one of greatest nonanswers i've ever heard. >> y

-- us, not france.mp talked about the $2.4 billion of tariffs on french products, his relationship with emmanuel macron, and the u.s.-china trade deal, no deadline and suggesting it was up to him to go forward with a deal or not. you were reminding me china has a pivotal role in how they are dealing with nato. talk to west a relationship between the alliance and china -- talk to us the relationship between the alliance and china. tolie: they would begin think about nato's position on china as china becomes more involved economically. there is the feeling that nato needs to investigate this. for any security concerns that might come from this. we are expecting some sort of statement in the communique that comes out of the summit, but that is an important signal. if nato is going to maintain its relevance it will have to ask questions about what china's engagement in the air up means for transatlantic -- in europe means for transatlantic security. is the relationship between the u.s. and europe changing?

said at a time when nobody needs nato more than france comments that he didn't go on to substantiate or explain so that's the background of relations between trump and micron as they head into a meeting very shortly in the ambassador u.s. ambassador's residence behind me we'll be hearing more about that i think in a short while we absolutely will and we will be bringing you that live here on out is there a certain states and china how the outside the u.s. and just as residents and long thank you general. on to other news now and 5 people including a police officer were killed during monday's protests against u.n. peacekeepers an eastern democratic republic of congo at least 7 people are also recovering in hospital and benny security forces say they were forced to fire on protesters who were making their way towards a u.n. base people there accuse un forces of failing to protect them from rebel attacks who are supposed to go what is really going to i was shocked by the noose goes soldiers these people who are shooting from everywhere as he was storming the building on monday but whate

and france are clashing over new tax regulations for big tech companies after france announced new duty's for the likes of google and facebook the u.s. warns against changing international rules. also on the show after what the saudi oil minister called a lot of brains squeezing opec countries have agreed to cut oil production to boost prices but the measure may not benefit all members. and startups and innovators are meeting at the car digital show. just to discuss ideas for the future but also how to finance. and how you know yes it's good to have you with us on business the so-called digital tax foresees new fiscal regulations for companies like google amazon and facebook u.s. treasury secretary steven warned the organization of economic cooperation and development o.e.c.d. against overhauling existing international taxation rules but france sees that very differently. right now global giants like amazon google or facebook can decide themselves in which country they tax their profits or regulation the u.s. in particular would like to preserve the paris ones profits that are made in fra

what about you into my comparison france twenty four the headlines this hour. brown's grinds to a halt amid mass opposition to president microns pension reforms union say a quarter of a million marched in paris this to this day the government puts the figure is sixty five thousand seventy one people were arrested and there were clashes in several. major cities. survey destruction on public transport nine out of ten trains canceled a fifth of flights in and out of the country scrapped. and most state schools close to unions have voted to extend the strike into next week. and in iraq protest is accused pro iranian militia of infiltrating demonstrations to with knives at least fifteen people stopped and backed up starrett square does the government shuts down protest friendly media outlets will have a special report snakes and the part . and we begin with an outpouring of anger here in france over the government's plans to overhaul the pension system and these are the same in paris tonight. unions say that up to a quarter of a million people have been taking part

france as police authorities declined to speak to us about their tactics during protests. but a police trainer said he if we disguised his identity. in. the train i demonstrated the precision of the l.d.d. . first he aimed at the targets head. and then he shot the dummy squarely in the chest. was it already broken or did you break it. meant to not. speak it wasn't the impact of the weapon that drew his criticism but the failure of police officers to use it properly. and that in 20182 months before the yellow vests started marching the national audit office had criticised the low number and poor quality of police training facilities. i was source says the riot control guns were nevertheless given to the insufficiently trained offices. if. they block block every little contact in the corner. compound compound plan pompom. was discussed a lot with police circles. the police training like this should be funded by the interior ministry. but why are they not doing it. 2019 b. ever it's president mccall had invited the world leaders to the g. 7 summit and the global media had gat

nor france.s always said that it would be favoring an oecd solution, but if the oecd solution would not be issued, then europe will take the initiative at its own level. this is what is at stake. if there is retaliation from the u.s., everything is on the table. europe has said that it would be backing up france. we hope there are still some room for discussion and that we can find a solution. taylor: you say europe has been backing up france, but frankly you are the only ones who have gone through with this unilateral tax as of yet. cedric: i said there are other european countries that would be interested. u.k. being one of them. spain has been one of them. italy and austria as well. it is not only a french thing. the european commission has been tax.g it once a a tax and is favoring the oecd solution. it would go for a european solution. we need to create that level playing field. if the americans do not want to go for that solution, we will go for a european solution. taylor: and you really f

it state twenty six of france's crippling transport strikes.across the country everyone is asking the same questions what will make it stop and when. the government has made some small concessions but not enough to satisfy unions an end to the strikes- con key on the state of negotiations. ballet dancers are the latest group to obtain concessions from the government get another profession that will be excluded from france's controversial pension reform plan. first it was public servants includiding gendarmerie police officers firefighters and prison guards because they exercise jobs considered to bebe dangerous the qualify for full reretirement benefits between te ages of fifty two and fifty seven. teaeachers for their pars willll obtain pay reaeasons to offset the effects of the reform plan on their pensions. for transport workers who have largely spearheaded the protests against the reform plan only those born after nineteen eighty or nineteen eighty five will be affecteded y the reform. . truck drivers flight attendants and pilots will be ab

please give my condolences to the families and to france. great fighters, you have done a fantastic job in that whole area. it's a tough area. so we appreciate it very much. we'll be talking about a lot of things, including nato and trade. we do a lot of trade with france. we have a minor dispute. i think we'll probably be able to work it out. but we have a big trade relationship. i'm sure that within a short period of time things will be looking very rosy, we hope. that's usually the case with the two of us. we've had a lot of good -- a lot of good things. we have done a lot of good things together as partners. our countries have been partners in many good ventures. including some having to do with radical islam and others. it's always worked out. so i look forward to our discussion. we made a lot of progress in our first 25 minutes. and we intend to make a lot of progress in our next hour, maybe hour and a half. so thank you very much. president macron: [speaking in french] [speaking a foreign language] [speaking in french] president trump

needs help also context a lot in this context and in light of the decisions that france will take a big engagement by its allies is obviously something that would be quite positive in this a hell france is involved in acting on behalf of everyone there are other budgetary questions the means but at least as important in our eyes is a contribution of the europeans to operations to the management of prices it would not be right to spend the 2 percent without having actually done anything with the armed forces just at the moment when crisis required her. spawn's and it's not the 1st time macron has been vocal over the issue the french president also criticized nato for bickering over defense spending instead of doing more to help the war on terror and sahil why does france care so much about saw hell as is almost always the case it's about africa's natural resources the border of mali and niger is lined with your rainy a mind so vitally important for french power stations of course it's also dangerous if islamic fundamentalists grow an influence there they would only need to travel thr

in france falling blocked roads and disrupted transport. a nationwide strike against government pension reform spills into days of protests. that's really coming quite clearly and you might get a sense of it just. as you can see that gas coming into the protests. people away. 70th anniversary summit exposes new divisions for the viral video for the world leaders apparently president. don't safeguard users from convicted sex offenders guess the beta where the responsibility to protect women is line. we need the company to take a moral stand or at least have some sort of. bill if you can't trust. your own hands. maybe thanks for joining us you're watching the weekly here on our. breaking news for you this hour the f.b.i. and the u.s. national security adviser are presuming the pensacola shooting that left 3 people dead and 8 injured on friday was an act of terrorism an investigation is continuing the shooting occurred in a classroom building at the naval air station in florida the attacker who was a saudi national training at the base was sho

to what extent is france looking to exploit this this diminishing of germany's reputation. well i think it frankly is quite fanciful because the french economy is nowhere near as strong as the german one i think does does a good talk but i'm not sure he does the same kind of walk he can say slightly know what you things about nato and about europe but he's got his own problems he's never quite recovered from the she dacian situation he has in that a number of reforms which he was able to do because he's got a lot majority in that somebody nationality but they would also at some stage be french elections he is france in some ways is a great a problem child because we have 4 nationality we don't have anything like 4 nationality i mean a if be appropriate to the right of whole notion of they would would not in any way gain power so france is not a state of i think the problem we have in europe at the moment is that we have a very chaotic situation in britain which in a year's time could probably date to a heartbreaks that because i won't be a deal it's a lead has not exactly a

there's talk about him resetting the presidency in france i mean. can he do that or will this break him that's the $1000000.00 question but that's was one of his major complaint promises to do finally it is pension system reform so it's kind of have to do it maybe in a way that's socially acceptable maybe to stretch it but if it has nothing on that then i will have a not a lot of presents 2022 re-elected we'll see who's willing to stretch the most in france moving forward look andrea as always we appreciate your analysis thank you. well still to come on the day britain's general election now just a week away will it be another referendum on bragg sits we're going to look at how remainders the people who are against drugs that are waging their own information war to keep the u.k. in the european you led by the on his ticket is going to be out every day trying to get the message out the people the boss. lunacy and hypocrisy. the south pacific state of samoa has gone into lockdown as it carries out a mass vaccination against measles of its population o