as france faces real shortages, president nicholas sarkozy has called a crisis cabinet meeting to respond. >> police clashed with writing youth in several french cities -- rioting youth several french cities as the riots escalated. police responded with tear gas. the interior ministry took almost -- says almost to wonder people have been arrested were -- 200 people have been arrested nationwide. >> i was scared. it is one thing to see on tv, but very different experience. it is really difficult. >> unions are targeting the country's fuel supply. for seven days, workers have been striking at all french refineries. gas stations are running out of fuel, especially diesel. >> my wife is annoyed because she has a diesel. we looked all weekend, to no avail. >> the strikes are affecting rail travel in france and

glor: an estimated 50,000 people marched in paris today to protest plans by french president nicholas sarkozy to raise the retirement age in france from 60 to 62. he says the pension fund is nearly broke. and french muslims are protesting a just-passed law barring women from wearing full-face veils in public. this controversial ban takes effect early next year, and elizabeth palmer has more tonight. >> reporter: every new terror alert focuses hostile attention on france's muslims, hostile, they believe, is exacerbated by political attacks like the recent campaign against the full veil led by president nicholas sarsarkozy. "in our country," he said "we can't accept women imprisoned this way." for a pop plus president it was a populist stance. a poll found 82%ment the veil banned in public. it's widely seen as anti-french and a symbol of oppression. but this woman who took up the veil 11 years ago said it's just cheap politics. "this law will stigmatize muslims and it's being used to distract french people from bigger problems." under the new law, women who refuse to take off their veils could

. >> angela merkel and nicholas sarkozy are working hard as they try to achieve unanimous endorsementf their proposals. >> for much more, let's go live to our correspondent at that summit. jeff, quite a change over the last 24 hours. can you fill us in on some of the new details? >> it shows you with the franco- german alliance can do when it dries. when we think there's no question of reopening this treaty 10 days ago. basically, there is support for angela merkel. not so much for the voting rights thing. that is a very contentious. but as i have been saying, the was never any doubt to the people agreed with the reasons behind the german chancellors decision to reopen the treaty. the big question that remains tonight is, do we have to reopen this treaty with solid kymmene for extended renegotiations, but the convention? we have to do that to achieve what the german chancellor ones. or can it be done by much more cynical procedure which will need a few meetings and signatures and we do not have the public relations disaster of reopening the treaty? what is happening at the summit is t

president nicholas sarkozy looking to raise the age as part of a reform package to the state's pensionenna: the deadly bombings of the u.s. embassies in africa, one of the first terror attacks linked to saw osama bin laden, now one of the suspects accused of plotting alongside the terrorist mastermind is getting ready for trial and it's the first trial ever for a gitmo detainee. we're going to take a first look at this case, next. jenna: happening right now, that pretrial hearing regarding the fort hood shooting and the trial of major nidal hasan has officially started. there was a 2 1/2 hour delay. we talked about this at the beginning of our show. rick leventhal on scene, covering this for us. again, it was supposed to start around 8:00 local time but more than 2 1/2 hours later it has now officially begun. major nidal hasan is being looked at in this trial. we'll see if he can actually be brought to the actual trial for 13 counts of premedicated murder -- meditated murder and 33 counts of attempted murder. so we're monitoring this closely coming out of fort hood, texas today. jon: w