welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we begin in france where more than a hundred police officers have been injured in the latest protests over pension reforms. demonstrators used the traditional may day rallies, to voice their continued anger, against president emmanuel macron s plans. these protests have been widespread. take a look at the figures. according to the interior ministry, more than 780,000 protesters hit the streets across the country. that includes 112 thousand in the capital, paris alone. but the country s hard left cgt union, says the figure is actually three times that number. at issue of course is president macron s plans to raise the retirement age from 62, to 64. he signed the legislation last month, and the meaures are due to take effect in september. 0ur europe correspondent, nick beake has the latest. singing. the may day march, a french tradition reaching back decades, but fuelling this year s protests, the vision of a future whe
sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s kasa. bayern munich have suspended sadio mane from the club s match this saturday against hoffenheim for his misconduct after the 3 0 defeat to manchester city in the quarterfinals of the champions league on tuesday night. the 31 year old former liverpool winger has also been given a fine by the bavarian side after reports of a changing room bust up with team mate leroy sane. the two players were seen arguing towards the end of the match. and german papers allege mane punched his team mate in the face. in the pick of tonight s europa league quarter final ties, six times champions sevilla travel to old trafford to face manchester united, who will be without in form striker marcus rashford. the forward has scored 28 goals this season for the club, but is out due to groin strain. the man likely to replace him, anthony martial, and boss, ten hag praised the frenchman, saying he makes the side better. the 53 year o
welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we begin in france where more than a hundred police officers have been injured in the latest protests over pension reforms. demonstrators used the traditional may day rallies, to voice their continued anger, against president emmanuel macron s plans. these protests have been widespread. take a look at the figures. according to the interior ministry, more than 780,000 protesters hit the streets across the country. that includes 112 thousand in the capital, paris alone. but the country s hard left cgt union, says the figure is actually three times that number. at issue of course is president macron s plans to raise the retirement age from 62, to 64. he signed the legislation last month, and the meaures are due to take effect in september. 0ur europe correspondent, nick beake has the latest. singing.
decide on the legality of president macron s plans. we will bring you any updates on those protests. for the moment, thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. hello, after the stormy weather that some of us had to endure yesterday, today things are a little calmer. storm noa, you can see here on our earlier satellite picture tending to break apart, but still some shower clouds left behind. there are some heavy showers out there, some of which will contain some hail and some thunder. some spells of sunshine in between. still quite breezy for some, particularly through parts of northern ireland, northern england, into the midlands and east anglia. but not as windy as yesterday. still feeling chilly, though. 9 13 degrees. and then as we head through this evening and tonight, we will continue to see some showers, bands of showers, particularly drifting across scotland and northern ireland. and the odd shower into wales ahead of this rain band into the south west of england, holding tempera