emanuel mccall's efforts to modernize one of europe's top economies the stoppages will hit product to vittie and just as a report revealed on monday that foreign investment in france has hit a ten year high. while investors in the country see the country rather on the road to reform but also the french and hoff opposed any change. tuesday morning at the god early on a major train station in paris. it's the first day of rolling strikes which are likely to continue for months. for most economists is a catastrophic something needs to be done with victims we haven't done anything wrong we need to get to work like everyone else this is normal. france's national rail operator s.n.c.f. says the strike will halt eighty five percent of france's high speed trains and three out of four regional trains. said i don't think we started every train station no direct trains a commuter was unwell and here i am heading to work and needing to rush away yesterday there's. no walkout as a serious test for french president demand will not call its reform agenda to protest these plans the country's four main rail u

reporting low profits or using tax havens and the tax for that would be do you want all of that to vittie is that exploit use the data hitting facebook and google beyond the classic revenues according to a report the u.s. now says that's unfair because those new rules will be designed specifically to tax big american corporations it only would affect companies with with at least seventy five million euros in worldwide sales but the facebook scandal has strengthened the e.u.'s hand as it prepares to introduce new data protection laws so it might find itself in a strong position to face down washington in a dispute in front of the w.t. old for example so there's more trouble in world trade let's bring in danielle cole from the frankfurt stock exchange daniel how will this impact on trade relations how strong is the use positions you you think. get in fact a little bit hard to say and that says you actually don't feel that the your opinion it has a very strong position at the moment in this dispute yes of course the data security scandal might give them a little better position to start thos

are people who are basically since the iraq war have been very very vocal see there is a great city vittie here in the u.k. poor for britain to get involved in anything that looks like regime change through them has been very careful to point out that this is not in this case was a deterrent or not to send a message that generally the use of weapons is nothing that can be allies with of course to the. chemical attacks in the u.k. of the next russian spike so that it was another one of the opposition is really troubling to say jeremy who've been trying to say the lead the labor party leader of the of position he's saying that the diplomatic route in this case was not and yet and that's a reason they should have waited she should have exhausted the diplomatic route more should have freely consulted element all right so for the u.k. for understand correctly this was a one off the u.s. as you know we're quoting a u.n. ambassador nikki haley says you know it's keeping the door open they're locked and loaded to act again is a present on board with that. the fact that syriza may. have been critic

paolo says is a verse to give workers reveal how mafia influence and i to vittie is changing of late. many journalists do not publish names or photos of mafia bosses many of my colleagues do not do investigative journalism i do i publish names and surname i publish photos and above all i try to follow their business schemes money this is a business worth billions not millions we're talking about billions of euros religionist has a fundamental role in telling the truth talking to people and doing investigative journalism that. i don't have all been saddled with or the mafia was defeated we thought this because the bombings were over because arrests were made we did not understand the mafia that was radically changing that it infiltrated the state and public body is something of the matter is just an italian problem but unfortunately that's not true the mafia has spread from italy to europe and the world. track another news story for you clashes have broken out in the small former soviet republic of armenia where there's been four days of mass protests now ahead of a longtime former pre

says they've got no thank to vittie in the area at the time give us i mean this is an unfair question i'm going to ask you to speculate what do you think is the reasoning if this is true behind this missile attack on that particular base. thanks rob for the question i'm not sure really what the motivation would be but certainly what we're watching in terms of american military involvement in syria and attacks on the recent attacks on the chemical weapons sites as well as the last year's taxes well it is that it's not really resolving anything and in fact it may be opening up a new can of worms where we can see diverse groups fomenting new attacks into areas to try to provoke certain engagements there's a lot of concern here in washington for example that terrorist organizations will get involved more in the chemical weapons game so to speak to try to incite american russian fighting and so there are a lot of alarm bells going off right now here in washington about what could be happening on the ground in syria and of course this latest attack if it is true may just be another indicati