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we start in france where police have fired tear gas at demonstrators after violence broke out at traditional may day rallies in paris. they have been mass demonstrations against plans to raise the pension age to 64. the plans were pushed through parliament last month without a vote which has led to a wave of unrest across the country. we can cross to a europe corresponding nick beake in paris. we are seeing different sides to the protest, on the one hand clashes with police with tear g...

hello and welcome to the programme. it has become a familiar scene on the streets of paris, protesters dressed in black and police armed with riot shields. tear gas and barricades running battles taking place down the boulevards of the french capital. it is happening again and this time on may day. a mostly peaceful demonstration against president macron�*s controversial reforms of the pension system mired once more by scenes of violence. these are live pictures now of police firing ...

And the police on horseback had to come in at speed. and we had these clashes. we have heard about 30 people have been arrested and that figure is going up all the time so we have this kind of different stories within one city, families on the official route and also maybe hundreds of people who have already clashed with the police just an hour or so into this demonstration. do we know which sections of the protesters are the ones that have clashed with police? it was the people dressed all in b...

Make them rich. >> ashley: and controversy swirling at the beijing winter olympics. five are disqualified over their out fits from germany, norway, austria and japan. they do not apply to the ski federation rules, suits are said to fit too loosely giving the skewers advantage on jumps. outrage with athletes and coaches. germany disqualified silver medallist says she has no words and the decision is damaging the sport. >> todd: will not lie, arn, does not seem like it is going well. >> ashley: no...

>> shots fired by police. shots fired by police. >> get an ambulance over here. >> the officer who shot mcdonald is charged now with first-degree murder. chicago activists have called for the mayor there as well as the states attorney to resign. protesters today say they are planning peaceful protests. ryan young is live in chicago along this protest route. what are you hearing and seeing? >> reporter: so far, this is one of the smallest protests we have seen. this is about 75 to 100 people. the...

Show up. just outside the commercial district in nice. organizers had said that they were expecting around 6,000, maybe more. right now, we would say theres a fraction of that. they did decide to hold a protest on a holiday. its a big holiday. all saints day, rather, hoping to keep participation levels high. they were supposed to start their march around about now, but it looks like they are waiting just a little bit longer, and they are hoping to end this march at an old slaughterhouse where th...

I think we can all say was very humble, intensely smarted and knew politics and spent the latter part of her years fighting for women in poor countries and women victims here in the united states. >> heather: she showed many personal moments and we look forward to hearing that. >> we do have another fox alert. tens of thousands of protestors taking to the streets of london venting their anger over spending cuts. at least 100,000 people are taking part in the main demonstration and it is mostly p...