hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world it was meant to cement a newly warm franco british relationship but the planned three day visit by king charles and the queen consort camilla to france this weekend has been suspended at the request of president macron, because of escalating protests and some violence over the french government s proposals for pension reform. more than a50 people were arrested on thursday and am members of the security forces were injured during the most violent day of protests since the start of the year, according to the french interior ministry. more than 1 million people took to the streets that day to protest against the retirement age being raised from 62 to 64. from paris, here s our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. tear gas. riot police. this is paris at the moment. there are piles of uncollected rubbish in the streets and angry demonstrators on the streets. furious with president macron ove
it was meant to cement a newly warm anglo french relationship but the planned three day visit by king charles and the queen consort camilla to france this weekend has been suspended at the request of president macron, because of escalating protests and some violence over the french government s proposals for pension reform. more than a50 people were arrested on thursday, and am members of the security forces were injured during the most violent day of protests since the start of the year, according to the french interior ministry. more than one million people took to the streets that day to protest against the retirement age being raised from 62 64. from paris, here s our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. tear gas. riot police. this is paris at the moment. there are piles of uncollected rubbish in the streets and angry demonstrators on the streets. furious with president macron over his plans to raise the state pension age to 64. matters appear to be deteriorating and
Twenty years is the time it’s taken for the Russian leader to turn the clock back to an era in which accredited Western journalists are arrested and children of the ‘enemies of the state’ thrown into state orphanages.
A Russian girl who was sent to an orphanage after drawing an anti-war picture, for which her father was convicted for discrediting the armed forces, has been collected by her mother who has not lived with the family for at least seven years.
The girl’s father, Alexei Moskalyov, was given a 2-year jail term after his daughter drew a picture of Russian missiles and slogans such as ‘No to Putin, no to war’. She has gone to live with her mother who, it is believed, has not lived with the family for at least seven years.