right, emmanuel macron is here, along with manuel valls, to herald the pro-business reforms in france passed by parliament last year. the idea is make it -- the idea is to make it easier to do business in france and to help create jobs. forced through parliament using a constitutional override. --ew plan to help cut jobs the president is calling it an economic state of emergency. in france, reforms were not well received. macron was asked about where the reform plan will go next. question markbig about france because of the upcoming presidential election, and the message is that we will not stop reform in the country because of this election. why? because everything is about unemployment and economy, so we are going to keep reforming and iswill -- my strong feeling that we have to speed up and shanking reforms. stephen: in the labor market, what will these reforms and tail? health far will the reforms get -- how far will be reforms go? more adaptivech model to the current market. stephen: and the 35-hour work week? >> the working hours -- through agreement, exactly like in germany, yo

francois hollande, along with prime minister manuel valls, was here to unveil the plaque in memory of the victims. he was surrounded by family of the victims. the franco-malian owner of the supermarket, who acted as a hero, saving lives, hiding customers in a cold storage room. this was an emotional ceremony, four peopleurn the killed in this attack. two other plaques were unveiled paris, one atf hebdo offices, with the surviving members of the satirical magazine, along with the families, relatives of the ceremony,tending the presided over by francois hollande. families ofe by the the victims in these difficult times -- another plaque was unveiled very close to the charlie hebdo headquarters. the exact location where a policeman where by killed, savagely murdered the brothers comedy two jihadists, as he was trying to prevent them from fleeing the scene of the attack. the mother of the policeman was there at the ceremony, holding a french flag. france is in mourning today, and a week of commemorations has begun to mark the one-year anniversary of the january attacks, of the charlie heb

catherine: france's prime minister manuel valls hailed boulez for his passion and creativity. he founded a musical ensemble in 1972 and it is still based here in paris. thank you for being with us. how would you describe pierre boulez? very --e boulez was a he was a person who was very impressive. even people who would have met him very few would have a recollection of this meeting with him. because he was, at the same time, a very elegant and intuitive person, often times very gentle and insistent. one could not come around this very strong personality -- above all, he was a very generous person. any musician who had worked with pierre boulez, even somebody who has worked within an academy as a young musician, would remember him. that was pierre boulez. catherine: and you, as i said, direct the ensemble that pierre boulez founded, the ensemble intercontemperain -- intercontemporain. what legacy would you say it leaves? >> invented it because>> he felt invented it -->>he because he felt it necessary to have an institution that could offer the maximum freedom to artists. compos

a proposal also put forward by prime minister manuel valls only a year ago. currently, those who are unemployed can claim jobless benefits in france for up to two years if they are under 50 and three years if they are over 50. they can receive between 57% to 75% of their salary during this time. example, a 30-year-old who has been working at the same job for five years being paid minimum wage at almost 1500 euros a month would receive 1100 euros month in benefits if they lost their job. that is too much, according to employers who are calling for the system to be reformed. >> this would encourage job seekers to return to the labor market faster. every other country in europe has implement it an incentivized system which declines over time and increases market mobility. mark: unions have rejected the current proposals. all sides will sit down in the spring when negotiations are expected to take place. until then, france will continue to count the cost of its near record high unemployment levels as the country tries to reduce its 70 billion euro budget deficit.

it would not be inserted into the constitution, only to be overturned by francois hollande and manuel valls a couple of days later. that made her position untenable. to the very end, she will be seen as a woman who remained, who stuck to her convictions, and who stuck to her ideals in a france which has been drifting increasingly to the right. she remains a voice very much of the left, a voice which perhaps would have been much more recognizable a couple of years ago and perhaps much more mainstream and acceptable. molly: douglas, thank you very much. our international affairs commentator. president rouhani wraps trip to the with a coliseum. his european to her -- his european tour marks his visit to the international stage after the historic nuclear deal. our correspondent has more. >> international sanctions have been lifted, and iran's ready to do business. first with italy, now france. on the first official trip to presidentthe iranian and almost two decades, the sans rouhani has assured his potential business partners that it makes sense more than just economically. >> i would like to