Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181203:08:38:00
To prevent a repeat of last week's violence on the champs-elysees. the yellow vests had warned that this would be part three of a protest against a hike in the fuel tax which helped push the price of diesel up 16% this year. but the hike on which the french president has refused to back down was just the spark of a protest now aimed more broadly at the cost of living in general, and the liberal policies of the french president in particular. ahead of today's protests, authorities had warned that more radical anarchist elements might once again infiltrate demonstrations that were supposed to be...