A 100000000. 00 in damages the killing of Trayvon Martin sparked the black movement. Good morning just this friday 6th of december International World news center its kevin owen here for the update with you you can stay with me to 1st focus on france has been there the last 24 hours the biggest strike in years has brought france to a standstill workers have been venting their anger against government plans to overhaul the Pension System one of the largest trade unions in france says 1500000 people marched in support of the protests while the interior ministry puts that number lowered around 800000. Massive demonstrations held right across the country on thursday with more unrest expected over the next few days. Or so clashes between what place protesters officers used to a gas and buttons to disperse the crowds most violent rallies the predicate khaled events he was there for us throughout the day. This strike has been planned for many months now and this is against a proposed changes
A terrorist groups of last fridays for future goes to global again thousands of young people take part in rallies around the world the call to action comes ahead of next weeks un Climate Summit and political turmoil in malta where Prime Minister josef most orderly plans to resign as the deepening crisis sparked by a journalists murder involves his closest allies well talk to our correspondent in blunt. Im called aspen ball come to the program in London Police say they have shot and killed a man wearing a hoax explosive device on London Bridge after a stabbing attack british media is reporting that 2 people were killed means act footage posted on social media shows a man in civilian clothes wrestling with a person believed to be the attacker. Surrounded by armed police other civilians back away one of them appears to be holding a large knife now footage also shows Police Checking a white truck which is parked across London Bridge Emergency Services including ambulances were quickly on t
Their 2nd general strike in a week accusing the president of failing to come up with concrete proposals to meet their demands. In a dramatic escalation of iraqs antigovernment protests crowds have torched the rainy and consummate he not java holy city for shia muslims hundreds surrounded the building lighting taia than anything else they could find while chanting iran out they accused tehran of propping iraqs government which they want replaced this is a 2nd time this month anyway and consulates has been targeted by protesters 3 weeks ago Security Forces defending at the site in karbala killed 4 demonstrators earlier we spoke to our reporter mama john john on the phone in baghdad he explained how suspicion and anger about iran have played into the protests. And there it here in the by by these thousands and our government demonstrators d that that area is far too beholden to store and powers and that among those foreign powers that are exerting too much influence in this country is the
Its president signed 2 bills into law that back hong kong prodemocracy movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses and hong kongs special trade status will be reviewed every year the territorys leaders say itll damage relations with the u. S. While chinas expressed extreme mcgrath over the moves saying it will respond with foreign countermeasures particle has been following developments from washington. The president aware that he was sort of forced into this not wanting to see china react sending out a fairly unusual statement saying that he signed these bills out of respect for president g. China and the people of hong kong they also put in their announcement that he had signed these 2 bills that he believes some provisions interfere with the president s Constitutional Authority and they would be treating the bill it with that if it were in mind what exactly does that mean they didnt spell out what provi
Leadership as at all other interAgency Meetings on this topic of which i was aware the National Security Community Expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u. S. National security interest at the july 26th meeting there was also a discussion of how ukrainian anticorruption efforts were making progress do you do you reiterated what we had said and our earlier certification to congress stating that sufficient progress in defense reform including anticorruption had occurred to justify the usa i spending. I and others at the interAgency Meetings felt that the matter was particularly urgent because it takes time to obligate that amount of money and my understanding was that the money was legally required to be obligated by september 30th the end of the fiscal year in the ensuing weeks until the hold was released on september 11th i pursued 3 tracks 1st starting on july 31st and an interAgency Meeting i made clear to the interagency leadership my understanding that once