so t that's whwhate governmentnt is saying. obviousy the trade uninions are tryingngo say they are all the ways of finding the money to fund the scheme not whether it's inevitable probably but the battle of the minutes is june between the union and the government is to say right. now is not the time. announcer from the university of northumbria is- french politics professor ideon book one with a coarser returned to the set. topic can throughout this program here live from paris. next to o many frfrench workers have b benefitd from special pensions linked to that specific jobs. and of course negotiated over many years these a cool special regimes here in france among american took the example of his rail willie. rather work a grandfather to illustrate why he wanted to reform the pension the tough physical labor of his grandfather's days now far less demanding job. macklin says so working longer should be acceptable well each of the more than forty. special pension schemes has its own particularities sound strikers reasons to opp

. >> it is thinking like this that scientists have been trying to instill in governmentnt and publblic health posisitions with oversight over the drilling activities. what is in the nature? nobody knows for sure and most companies and not telling. this group has worked with the u.s. national science foundation and the massachusetts institute of technology to uncover a list of 246 products used by the natural gass industry. >> one of our staff set out to systematically set up a database in order to look at the long list of chemicals that we have at hand. those products that have health 1%-6% effect.ave 43% of the product on our list contained in the quinn disrupt the chemicals that could interfere with the development of individuals before they are born and cause irreveversible changes in n their health led a life. -- later in life. are not willinghere to trade their long-term future for short-term gain. >> it will in fact our enenvironment and ouour undergrd water. >> northern poland. this is a picturesque land forms, rolliling hills, and prisistine forests. the people of fish t the in

what nobody expects in this election, much like the brexit referendum, is a majority labor governmentnt. scenario, there will referendum, and possibly a second scottish referendum required. that would be if they go into coalition government with this british national party. and then there is a wide ranging plan for natioionalization of various indudustries. a a lot of the gegeneral public actulyly support privatized rail companies and the like. not everyone is happy with that. but if you are an i investor, tt does somewewhat put you off investing in the u.k., particularly if you invested in utilities, with the possibility your share stake may be taken over by the government. it is not somomething we have bn used to seeing in the u.k. for a while, and it would put off perhaps those flows of fufunds that have beenen sitting on the sisidelines, waititing for brexo be resolved. they would be put off from doing so, most likely. stephen: do you think thehe economy has been a dominant issuee in ththe election, or has this all b been about exexit? the g gl to get s slogandone -- i hear the all

governmentnt tanks are mountinga ground offensive on the last -- mounting a ground offensive on the last remaining. also coming up, germany's president gives his annual christmas day address, asking citizens to overcome differences and respect each other as equals. also, pope francis delivered his christmas message from the vatican. he told thousands of worshipers packed in st. peter's square to let the light of christmas pierced the darkness in human hearts. he also made an appeal for peace around the globe. and the open wounds of romania's christmas revolution. the country marks a grizzly revolution, the exexecution of a commmmunist ctator 30 years ago today that helped bring the country's bloody revolution to an end. i'm laila her rock -- i'm laila harrak. so glad you could join us. a very warm welcome. we begin this broadcast in syria. more than 200,000 people have fled a government assault on idlib province. most have been heading for the turkish border. syrian regime forces backed by tanks are continuing their ground offensive against rebel held offenses in southern and eastern idl

what this means for the german governmentnt should become clear over the coming days.rent: dw's chief political correspondent melinda crane can guide us through this. is this a crisis? >> it is a shock. and it is certainly a crisis for the spd, has seen its share of crises over the last couple of years. whether it is a crisis for the government and for the country as a whole does depend on a couple of different factors. factor number one. what happens at the social democrats party conference on friday? they do have to confirm this new leadership duo. it seems pretty clear that they well. but that is still one very -- va riable. to prevent that party conference from becoming a yes-no referendum on whether the government stays in power, whether the spd leaves the government, the new leaders have said they do not, in fact, want to immediately precipitously leave the government. what they do want is to renegotiate the coalition agreement. meanwhile, however, spokesman for the government have said the cdu is not about to agree to that. so both angela merkel's spokesperson a

thinkhat we e going to witness is much bigger, werful movements across the world and h holding their governmentnts into account. butt not only justst accountability, there have to be consequences for t inactioion. i think, amy, we are gointo see, i believe, much strtronger movements. they're not goioing to tololerae inaction b by the governments. not just developoped countries, but in all of the countries. sosouth africa, for e example, l also be w witnessing movementsts against t the kind of c continud use of coaoal in the country. i i think that is the pe now he will l have to come from us, the e people. and d some of the uninity was already dememonstrated in the yu in trouble see process. it can only y grow stronger andd stronger.. amy:y:asneem e essop, thank you for being with us executive , director of the climate action network international. speaking just from cape town, south africa, where she is just arrived back from the madrid cop . executiveehman, director of "war on want." to see all of our coverage of the u.n. climate, you can go to democracacynow.org. we come back, impeachment with

i could not comprehend how on the highest levelels of the governmentnt and powerful people were allowowing this to happen - not only allowing it to happen, but participating in it. amy: she said she was first lured into of soon sex trafficking operation while she was working as a locker room attendant president trump's mar-a-lago resort. prince andrew has rejected guiffre's account. he has been forced to step back from all royal duties. "the washington post" reports health care industry lobobbyists helped write or rerevise opinion articles p publishshed by at let ree state e laakers that criticized m medicare-for-r-all. montana democrcratic statete representative khyhy kelker andd state senator r jen grs boboth included language in theirir opinion articles that wass written n by a lobbyisist for a multimillion-dollar industry group funded b by private insurs and drug companies. ohioio republican n statsenatotr steve huffman also wro a an article criticizizing medicare-for-all with the help of an industry lobbyist. and in detroit, about 90 foreign students of a fake university created by th