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protesters blocked the access way to paris charles de gaulle airport. certainly that gives you a sense of how protests are escalating in france. >> laura, what can you tell us here about how significant this moment is? >> i can tell you at this moment that in paris the situation is not really good because a few minutes ago, there was fire and there were some grenades which have been fired near a restaurant on the left bank in paris. and that's really important because the restaurant was the restaurant where the french president macron celebrated his victory of the second round of votes in the 2017 presidential election >> wow >> again, a few minutes ago you had the restaurant , which has
article and said, okay, we want this reform to happen. and now it is much more that an anger against the pension reform it is about something else and people are worried, people have in mind what happened in january 6th, people have in mind what is happening all over the world in democracies and, again, the french are in the streets, they do not want this reform. they also, as i told you, a kind of public anger which is not good at this moment. >> all right, laura haim, thank you for that we will keep our eyes on that and we still have our eyes on nashville, tennessee, where we just heard from state representative justin jones, one of three democrats facing expulsion today for participating in gun reform protests on the house floor. he was admonished multiple times for speaking off topic we'll keep monitoring this hearing. but, first, the growing tensions
been set on fire there's no injuries, but it's extremely symbolic, lindsey. >> yeah, we can see in the video right now what looked to be potentially workers there trying to just pour buckets of water on that fire that you're talking about. just stunning images here. laura, you know the president. is there any possibility that the government will reverse course in response to these protests? >> no, absolutely not. the french president is completely determined to make this reform. according to him and his government, france has to adapt to the globalization so another huge problem because all the polls are showing that the population does not want this reform. i can just tell you that after the strike today, which is, again, a general strike, the unions just announced that there will be another strike next
visit mytepezza.com to find a ted eye specialist and to see bridget's before and after photos. 45 past the hour we're keeping a very close eye on breaking developments out of paris, where dozens of protesters entered the offices of the investment firm blackrock, railing against french president emmanuel macron's overhaul of the pension system today's day 11 of nationwide protests, demonstrating against macron's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 these are live pictures, 5:45 p.m., paris time joining us now is french journalist laura haim, foreign correspondent for lci. and a spokesperson for president macron's 2017 campaign laura, good to see you tell us more about what's
violence in the city of paris, and that's the problem at this moment the paris police is also saying 20 people have been detained. and according to our figure, which is very important newspaper here, the police officers on motorbike has been hospitalized after being hit with a stone in the head that's what happened at this hour in paris. i want to let you know that all the demonstrators are also in other cities in france so the situation is quite vol volatile >> laura haim, thank you so very much for being with us this morning. appreciate it. we're also following new developments in the escalating tensions in the middle east. the israeli military says more than 30 rockets have been fired from lebanon into israel today the rocket attacks come as israelis celebrate the jewish passover holiday
thursday so a lot of people here in paris and all over france are extremely worried about what could happen with this breaking between the french government and the demonstrators. again, according to the ministry of interior, we do not have official figures about how many people are in the street today, but we can clearly see that it's hundreds of thousands of people and not only in paris, but in also other cities in france who are opposed to this reform. >> i mean, we've seen some of these demonstrations, laura. do you feel like what we're seeing today the last couple of days is a flash point? >> i think it's a very important day today the government is saying the demonstrators are going to be tired, and they're going to give up and one we can see that again, people march in thousands of