Claudio is with us what are we seeing today reporter: they haven t backed off, chris the protests that have gripped france for the past few weeks against the pensions reform have now intensified, and the reason is that yesterday, the trade unions and the prime minister of france failed. now, today just to give you a couple of examples of protests that flared up all over the country, and especially in paris, on that occasion you just mentioned at the offices in paris now the black rock offices are in a major building in the center of paris, near the royal opera house and in the other opera house, and there were about 100 other trade workers protesters who stormed the hall of that building, holding red flares and firing smoke bombs, spent about a half hour in there and left the building. in another part of paris, a restaurant, where president macron in 2017 held a