it was meant to cement a newly warm anglo french relationship but the planned three day visit by king charles and the queen consort camilla to france this weekend has been suspended at the request of president macron, because of escalating protests and some violence over the french government s proposals for pension reform. more than a50 people were arrested on thursday, and am members of the security forces were injured during the most violent day of protests since the start of the year, according to the french interior ministry. more than one million people took to the streets that day to protest against the retirement age being raised from 62 64. from paris, here s our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. tear gas. riot police. this is paris at the moment. there are piles of uncollected rubbish in the streets and angry demonstrators on the streets. furious with president macron over his plans to raise the state pension age to 64. matters appear to be deteriorating and
here, it really does. the accessible queue has now closed, and there s a warning the general queue will shut well before the funeral service. the line currently stretches back five miles. next week, the queen s coffin will be transferred to westminster abbey for herfuneral, led by the dean of westminster. right at the heart of this is a family funeral, we mustn t forget that. deeply personal and a very, very difficult thing for a family to navigate. but this is also a celebration of a quite extraordinary life. this evening, the queen s eight grandchildren, including princes william and harry, will hold a vigil by their grandmother s coffin. also on the programme. ukraine says more western weaponry is needed to beat the russians, as bodies are recovered from a mass burial site, newly liberated in north eastern ukraine. hundreds protest outside new scotland yard over the shooting dead of 24 year old chris kaba. and football pays tribute to the queen in the first full weekend of
Did zelensky take away from this da . ~. ,. , this day . We are learning more details tonight this day . We are learning more details tonight of this day . We are learning more details tonight of what this day . We are learning more details tonight of what the details tonight of what the Security Assistance programme now includes and i want to run you through some of the weaponry. It amounts to some 325 Million Us Dollars in weaponry, specifically when it comes to air defence, something we know that president zelensky had been calling for. Format ammunition as well, and to be fired from both powerful himars rocket systems. More abrams tanks as well, abrams tanks which will be on the ground in ukraine. We now understand from next week. Specifically though it did not include those longer range missiles, remember president zelensky have been calling for those, particularly in regards to efforts to retake any land in crimea. This was also an opportunity for president zelensky to meet and b
Magnificent French National library. My magnificent French National library. My wife and i will visit bordeaux, the first city to be twinned with the first city to be twinned with the british city, bristol, in 1947. This shared link is just one of the countless number of connections between our towns and cities, communities, businesses and educational establishments. It is our people through all that they do together who are writing each new chapter of our history. So that it more secure, more prosperous world might be the inheritance of the next generation. Ouryoung might be the inheritance of the next generation. Our young people must therefore be at the heart of our shared endeavours. This morning, i am pleased to see young people from the 19th Arrondissement in paris who have received support for starting professional work and this is through initiatives with clubs in different organisations. When we support our young people we are investing in our future and there will be many and
Century after that revolution, in 1788, that the same mirabeau defied the king of france and set the will of the people against the king, with the First National assembly, the first parliamentary body, and this was quite simply his ambition, to transpose the british model of constitutional monarchy. In the end, it was the english who almost had the french revolution, but in france developed towards another system and on the 21st Of September exactly 231 years ago to the day, the republic was born. And so our two pupils have been watching one another, influencing one another, have for many years been rivals, but for more than a century have always been allies to defend democracy and human rights. The different commemorations we have recall this and next year, in 2024, we shall be celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale and the 80th Anniversary of the normandy landings. And as vera lynn saying, we shall meet again, we shall meet again to continue to seal this compact of