those are pretty harsh terms used to describe so the bothe -- to describe svoboda. genie: let's come back to france for a huge story here today. summer is now officially over. today it is back to school for some 12 million french kids. right, a pretty dreaded word if you are a student. you can get all the information here. perhaps the most important detail is the school holiday, so you can plan your next school holiday. lots of papers are focusing on this in particular because it is the last one under the current school program. the government has pushed through a series of controversial school reforms. it is the last for the excellency programs. starting in 2016 there will be changes. kids are not going to learn as much ancient greek and latin. critical of these changes, saying the government wants to being -- to bring more quality reform. the editorial says here. w8úú announcer: this is a production of china central television america. walter: the african continent is home to more than 1.2 billion people, and there are nearly as many descriptions of life in africa