welcome to the program i'm marion evans dean in paris police have again been firing tear gas and water cannons as yellow as protesters ignite fires and ransacked shops for the most violent street clashes in paris since december of last year this is now the fourth month of demonstrations by a loose coalition of activists unions and citizens demonstrators accuse president of mental model of forgetting ordinary people and favoring the country's elite instead. for the very latest from paris we're joined now by journalist john laurenson so john why has there been this sudden upsurge of violence today haven't the yell of his protest actually been losing momentum. they had over recent weeks and suddenly today there's been this sudden upsurge of violence as you mentioned i think the reason is that so obvious consultation process that's in the new america two months ago came to an end yesterday where he launched this so-called great national debate where you try to find out what the universe lupin's in particular and the french people in general want. so my crown has been showing people that he

thanks for joining us i'm marion evans dean algeria is bracing for a widespread protests as demonstrators await confirmation on whether or not the country's president up jealousies beautifully will indeed seek a fifth term. students turned out in the capital algiers and other towns calling on the eighty two year old incumbent to drop his plan to run again which of the guys been in power since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine and is reportedly in poor health rallies demanding his resignation began ten days ago they are expected to gain momentum ahead of sunday's midnight deadline for candidates to officially submit their intention to run. well with me in the studio now for more on this is always bashir a room algerian journalist bashir thanks for being here so as we just mentioned the deadline for candidates to register for algeria is presidential polls in april is tonight do you think but to think it is going to run again well according to a german constitutional experts the candidates need to go in person to the constitutional council and announce they would run and as we know which