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hello and welcome to bbc news. the french prime minister has condemned the violence that accompanied a day of mass demonstrations against reform of the country's pension system. the interior ministry says more than a50 protestors were arrested and 440 members of the security forces injured. more than 1 million people took to the streets on thursday to protest against the retirement age being raised from 62 to 64. most of the protests were peaceful, but there were violent clashes with police in paris and in other cities, including bordeaux, toulouse, lille and nantes. vincent mcaviney...

executive faced strong questioning from us lawmakers about the social media app's alleged threat to us national security. the french government says more than a50 people have been arrested in clashes between police and crowds protesting an increase to the country's pension age. more than a million people took to the streets in major hello and welcome to bbc news. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, is holding talks with rishi sunak in downing street this morning. as mr sunak met his counterpart at the door for a handshake, they could clearly hear loud shouts of "shame" in he...

I saw today which is appearing in the chinese state media today and we have one editorial campaign that has appeared in the global times, one of the main hawkish state newspapers, bringing up this idea of the us being after the red menace, going back to the times of the 1940s, 19505, back to the times of the 1940s, 1950s, mccarthyism, famously the us senatorjoe mccarthy used very controversial tactics and really threw around a lot of false accusations in his efforts to root out communism. they are saying this harks back to that and they are bringing this up again and again, their key line toda...

Wall street genius scott martin, and francis newton stacy. what do you think happened? >> hey, i think it is so interesting, neil, we had so much enthusiasm on friday, but the close on friday, the market sold off hard. today we have the uncertainty coming from the china state newspapers which is psychological thing. the more trump says he's enthusiastic, the more they will downplay it, they don't want to lose face they gave away the kitchen sink and going to the close, the markets do not fear this trade deal is falling apart. the vix index was on the low for the close. >> neil: you know, scott...

Of the chinese state newspapers are saying the chinese are right to dig in and wait until there is a new administration because they don't trust the donald trump administration, is that right? >> reporter: yeah, that's absolutely right. it's almost kind of hard to argue with their logic. if the chinese government believes that they can wait out, their economy is strong enough and they can wait out donald trump, the election isn't all that far away. the chinese government doesn't plan in months, they plan in years and decades. so they're looking at this saying, there's a presidential election i...