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Correspondent, hugh schofield. these protestsjust keep going on and on. president macron has said he doesn't mind if these pension reforms make him unpopular, he's doing what is right for the country.— right for the country. indeed. you 'oin me right for the country. indeed. you join me just _ right for the country. indeed. you join me just to — right for the country. indeed. you join me just to set _ right for the country. indeed. you join me just to set the _ right for the country. indeed. you join me just to set the scene i right for the country. indeed. you join me just to set the scen...

He's shown handing out medals to soldiers who've been engaged in some of the most intense fighting in the year long war. the visit happened as russia launched more missile attacks, killing at least four civilians in the kyiv region of ukraine. at least 12 people have been killed and more than 200 injured after a powerful earthquake shook large parts of pakistan and afghanistan. the 6.5—magnitude quake damaged buildings, triggered landslides and sent people running into the streets. it struck on tuesday evening, centred in a mountainous region in afghanistan's north—east near the border wit...

Are continuing over the reforms — and there are concerns the demonstrations may have an impact on the state visit to france this weekend by king charles. 0ur correspondent hugh schofield joins us from paris. mr macron still seems defiant in the face of all these protests? yes, there is no turning back, his view was quite clear that this is necessary of reform. he knows it has caused a lot of anger but he would be derelict in his duty if you turn back now. he said to have been other reforms in the past of the pension system that all triggered mass demonstrations as well but he does not want t...

I guess, you know, dominic, we started the programme by talking about channel 4, and there's an equivalent issue in the french elections, actually, because president macron has said he would do away with their equivalent of the licence fee. just tell us a bit more about that, because that's obviously very interesting and topicalfor us here, too. well, this is something that macron has said, and he's not alone in saying this. all across europe, politicians are playing with this idea because the licence fee is seen as an unfairtax by a lot of people. and actually, nowadays it's unenforceable. th...

Going to the national public broadcaster, it was going to other places. that was widely seen as an attack on the independence of the broadcaster, actually, by making it more reliant on tax money, which can be easily cut, and less able to guarantee its funding and to carry out independent journalism. so, you know, macron may be doing this as a vote winner, but actually, whenever politicians say we need to replace the licence fee with something else, we need to be very wary about what their intentions actually are. chris curtis from broadcast, if i bring you back in, i saw that broadcast was rep...