simon mcgregor-wood, al jazeera, paris. >> on awater, at a time holiday rally seems to lose steam. stocks a little lower, down just two points so there is hope. index on a 6-session winning stream, set 50 new highs this year along. those record highs on wall street are doing little to change the way americans feel about the economy. a cnn-orc poll show 70% who believe the economy is in pour shape. through 2% say it's good. half expect it to remain weak into next year. 2014 could see wild springs, gas buddy.com says will approach $4 a gallon over the summer but the average price could dip below $3 and $0.40. that would be the lowest 11 since 2010. higher domestic crude oil production for that potential decline. in kenya, the practice of sending young girls off to be married is now being challenged. in some rural areas tradition sets december aside when the month when boys and girls are circumcised. after the procedure, many of those young girls are forced to become brides. katherine soy reports. schools are closed and these girls should be at home for the christmas holidays. but if

it's just a question of how long this day ends up being. >> simon mcgregor woods reporting there. >>>rs that hoards of rowe romanians and bulgarians. particularly about his constituency in sheffield. >> the page hall district of sheffield, more nonindigenous people here than locals. but they all say the same thing. thought aroma here is something else. two kids tried to sell them a baby. a roma woman came in with her baby, covered in lice, and a finger chopped off. >>> there is so much vitriol, against this group. if any other group, integrate here now just saying just the same here about the roma, that their neighbors' children urin urinate outside the gardens. >> i don't know if they understand or don't want to understand. i think they understand something at least not if language is a problem for them, at least body language is not a problem for them. but they don't want to do that. they just want to live their style. >> and in saying these things in this way, you don't feel like you're being a racist? >> no, i'm not -- i'm just trying to help them, is supposed to be. >> for thousa

simon mcgregor woods hassing details. >> the presence of president francois hollande. the decision to send french troops was his. >> translator: antoine lequino and nicholas lecaller, they died for france. they did a noble mission which was to save people in the central african republic. >> but what of french public support for this latest military intervention? one poll shows a drop from 51% in favor down to 44% in just a week. the two soldiers apts deaths, the emerging humanitarian cries he, the brutal killings, the sheer scale of the problem is causing people here to have second thoughts. >> translator: there should be a concerted action by the u.n. there are no solutions, being the picture on the plane kissing this person, that person, doesn't make any sense. >> translator: compared to mali we have much less grasp of the issue. we understand the presence of french troops but apart from that it's difficult to give an opinion. >> this is the second major frerchl mill tril exposition this year. ing it might be different. for most french people the central african repu

simon mcgregor wood has more from london.is grief stricken family insists he was murdered. >> someone who has gone out to help the people, and the suffering that is going on, and has been treat sod badly. >> i think just the fact that knowing that anybody can go out there doesn't matter where you are from. it is just inspiring and really quite upsetting. just days before his death, he had written home, talking about his release from government detention. but all to no avail. the family feel more should have been done to help him. the british government is also being criticized for it's performance on another key issue. that of refugees and the fact that so few are being allowed in. the british government says the focus should be to help the neighboring countries deal with the problem. it's immigration said i believe such initiatives should be our focus, rather than the resettlement of providing humanitarian evaccase to displaced syrians initiatives which provide only limited relief to the neighboring countries. and the u.n.'s

simon mcgregor-wood, al jazeera, belfast. >>> restriction on the free movement of workers from bulgariamania will be lifted as of january 1st. the british government has responded. barnaby phillips has more. >> reporter: a small part of bulgaria in north london. it serves as something of a community center, and they don't expect an influx of more bulgarians in 2014. the first job in britain was in a fish factory. now she is a psychologist, offended by the suggestion that bulgarians come to britain just to live off of social welfare. >> i can really define bulgarians as hardworking and very honorable people in general. they're -- we're not so used to gaining much from a social system. so i wouldn't say they come here to get benefits. >> reporter: london has undergone dramatic social change in recent years. and opinion polls show that most british people feel there has been too much immigration. so the debate needs to be seen in this context. and yet, it's quite apparent that british government officials have no real idea how many bulgarians and romanians intend to move here after january

simon mcgregor wood has our report. >> mourners came to pay their respects and offer prayer to his family. >> hundreds came from man who had gone to syria to save lives and ended up losing his own. his grief stricken family insists he was murdered by the regime. >> somebody who has gone out to help the people and the suffering and is treat sod badly by the authorities in syria. >> i think just the fact of knowing that anybody can go out there to help people doesn't matter -- it is just so inspiring. and really quite upsetting. >> results of a post mar temporary government will be announced late they are week, which may reveal signs of whether he was tortured and how he died. the british government says it tried hard to get access to him, but all to no avail. the family clearly feel more should have been done to help him. the british government is also being criticized for another key issue, that of refugees and the fact that so few are being allowed into the u.k. 16 countries have agreed to take a total of 10,000, but the british government says the focus of the aid should be to help syri