the may day march, a french tradition reaching back decades, but fuelling this year s protests, the vision of a future where people must work longer. grandmother clara, a retired postal worker, is refusing to accept the new law. and we are in the street making a mess, a mess, a real mess, i think it is possible to win. i am here to win. within minutes, the soundtrack of the city changed. the hard core clashing with some of the 5000 parisian police on patrol. a cloud now hangs over president macron s second term in office after he bypassed parliament to get his signature policy through. this pension reform may have already gone through, but still people are extremely angry. this is the hardcore element, but it reflects a wider anger
Chipping Norton health workers and trade unionists joined teachers, university lecturers, firefighters and other campaigners at the Oxfordshire May Day rally yesterday.
the may day march, a french tradition reaching back decades, but fuelling this year s protests, the vision of a future where people must work longer. grandmother clara, a retired postal worker, is refusing to accept the new law. and we are in the street making a mess, a mess, a real mess, i think it is possible to win. i am here to win. within minutes, the soundtrack of the city changed. the hard core clashing with some of the 5000 parisian police on patrol. a cloud now hangs over president macron s second term in office after he bypassed parliament to get his signature policy through. this pension reform may have already gone through, but still people are extremely angry. this is the hardcore element, but it reflects a wider anger
i want to move to another tapestry for you today. in france nearly three hundred people have been arrested and more than a hundred police injured as protesters used traditional may day rallies to show their continued opposition to the change in the pension age. the government said three quarters of a million people took to the streets unions said the real figure was three times higher. violence erupted in cities including lyon, nantes, strasbourg and in the capital paris, from where our europe correpsondent nick beake sent this report. singing. the may day march, a french tradition reaching back decades, but fuelling this year s protest fury over raising the pension age. grandmother clara told us she d keep on fighting against the new law. she is refusing to accept this new law. , ., , , ., ~ law. they are in the streets, making a mess, a real mess.