00:00And after this report from the US we go once again live to France as police
00:04continues to repress yellow vest protesters in Paris, the capital, as
00:08demonstrations against soaring living costs enter their fourth consecutive
00:13weekend. Confrontations erupted at Place de la Concorde as security forces keep
00:19pushing back demonstrators defying an official ban on gathering near the
00:25Elisa Palace. Nationwide is taking the same image but Interior Minister Lawrence
00:31Nunez deployed 70,000 security personnel throughout the capital equipped with
00:37water canyons, drones and armored vehicles. Organizers insisted on targeting
00:43political institutions directly denouncing state repression as working
00:48class families struggle under severe economic pressure.
00:59Ladies, gentlemen, do not stay at the time of police. This action has been
01:04effected. We will use the force to distance you.
01:24Indeed moments of tension there in Paris, we listened to the canister bombs that have
01:32been thrown on the protesters at this hour in an attempt as well to hold the demonstration however
01:38protesters remain firm and remain as well deployed throughout the main arteries of the
01:46capital of France at this hour demanding better wages, demanding better educational conditions
01:52as well and this is how the national police is responding to these demands and in an attempt
01:59as well to help them from continuing on a national strike that is reaching its four consecutive
02:07weekend of protests and demonstrations. This is the image of Paris at this hour we are witnessing
02:16with concern everything that has happened that has left as well many young people injured in the midst
02:24of the police brutality with which the forces of President Emmanuel Macron are responding to these
02:33to these demonstrations to these to the people's demands we've seen as well just leaders as well
02:40speaking to authorities in the midst of the protests saying that they are not going to back up until
02:45until they reach a respectful reform on their demands and that also that their demands are being listened,
02:55actually listened. This is the the situation, the social discontent that we are witnessing from the
03:05capital of Paris after weeks of demonstrations after weeks of people especially that begun as well
03:13as well with students deployed throughout the streets of the capital demanding better conditions and
03:21education, demanding as well the reinstatement of funds for the educational sector, they are as well rejecting
03:35the overcrowded classrooms with which they have to go to schools on a daily basis and all
03:43all of this is their main demands and this is how the President Emmanuel Macron has answered to these to
03:54these demonstrations to these demands.
03:57We are bringing you live images from from Paris at this hour in a very concerning situation in a very
04:05disturbing as well
04:08response repression on behalf of the government of Emmanuel Macron of the French government of Emmanuel Macron.
04:18There have been decisions nationwide in some places they have imposed as well curfews in order to prevent
04:27prevent students from making their demands and avoiding them from taking to the streets.
04:33There have been decisions since they have been taken from the streets.
04:34The local government of the French government of the French government of the French government of the French government of
04:35the British government is
