Just after 6 in the evening here in moscow this thursday december the 5th to wherever youre tuning in from this come to moscow to r. T. International our top story. By its biggest strike in years this thursday with workers protesting primarily against pension reform plans the countrys transport systems have been brought to a standstill and schools and hospitals are closed hundreds of rallies are taking place nationwide. Is among the crowds in paris and joins us live now from the french capital charlotte tell us why so many are protesting and what is the picture there like evening approaches. Well people are protesting because theyre unhappy with the idea of changes to the Pension System here in france quite frankly the idea of the french government of the month at the moment under president mccone is to change the 42 different systems to bring them into one universal system which the government says will be fairer more equal but those on strike to say see you know it wont be fair it wo
30 minutes. From. Its biggest strike in years. With workers protesting primarily against pension reform the countrys transport systems. We know as well schools and hospitals are closed. Are taking place. Lots of. Charlotte has been in the thick of the action for quite a while. Particularly where you are in the french capital charlotte why so much. My way here class to have a big fan i can tell you. The crimes go all the way back more than a close to god do nor which is where this process was originally due to start off with what was coming for many hours is turned to a huge tensions with clashes between the police and the protest as you might be able to hear some of those plus going off behind us thats tear gas thats being thrown into the protesters the taxes have set light to several parts of the streets around me including some of the electric scooters theyve been bringing items to put on to the fire we saw a van. On fire and they got tear gas really coming quite close to us and you
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His conservative partys lead over the Opposition Labor Party narrowed in the final week of the campaign. Im so hes almost gone but its good to have you with us it is an issue that has been causing friction between germany and the us for years and now it has escalated the north stream to pipeline is being built to transport gas from russia to germany but the u. S. Says it is a National Security risk because it increases europes dependence on russia as a result the u. S. House of representatives has now approved sanctions on the pipeline a move that has angered many here in germany the sanctions target of the specialist ships that lay the pipes. Only a few companies in the world possess the technology to lame. The pipelines none of them is russian if they continue to work on north stream too they could find themselves cut off from doing business in the us their assets there might be frozen and people working on the ships would no longer be allowed to enter america the 1230 kilometer long