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we start in france, where hundreds of thousands of workers are out on strike for a second time. they're protesting against president emmanuel macron�*s plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. eight big unions are taking part in the strike, which has disrupted schools, public transport and oil refineries. let's take a look. the first marches had started in the morning across the country, like this one, in rennes in north—western france. thousand of people also took to the street in toulouse, marseille and nice in the south of the country. and this was the scene in paris. ...

In the second half of the year. unless something changes that we are not aware of. so possibly it may be that their analysis is a little bit out of date because certainly in the second half of last year, the bank of england is being what we now know to be too pessimistic about its own growth forecast. it was expecting us to be in recession towards the end of last year and we know that is now probably unlikely from the way the data is coming in. so it may be that we look back on today's news and think that the imf was being a bit too sombre about the uk. having said that the underpinning analys...