Future theyre worried also that theyre going to have to work for longer hours one woman told me that she is a metro train driver shes worked for the paris transport system for 30 years and she says look when i went into it i thought that i was going to be guaranteed a certain pension and now she feels very uncertain about what the future holds. And how easy it will be for president mccrimmon to to push through with the pension reforms. Or pushing through anything for reform and for all this is never particularly easy but especially this one because most people are affected most french people have to pay into the French Public Pension System every day and private Pension Systems and past persons have really tried to overhaul the Pension System because it is so costly but they have failed because theyve been met with street demonstrations so its unlikely to be an easy task for president micron even very personally its going to be very risky because over the past year hes not afraid diffi
For more responsibility or quite risky jobs now workers say that their stream be worried about any upcoming reforms because theyre worried that their pension rights or their pensions are going to be reduced and also that theyre going to be forced to work later into their later years i should say. And its going to be a real challenge then isnt it for the government to push through this reform. Yes any sort of reforms in france do tend to come up against quite a bit of political and public opposition and pensions really touch everyone because most people parents of public pension there arent profits many private pension schemes is extremely rare so this really would be a reform that will to affect everybody and previous president s have tried to really overhaul this very costly Pension System but they have failed they faced street demonstrations they faced political opposition and from out of my course of particular challenge really because hes had quite a difficult year domestically he
By the berlin wall. On the tenth weekend of unrest, there have been further clashes between pro democracy protesters and riot police, in hong kong. Tear gas was fired after petrol bombs exploded near the main police headquarters. Earlier, beijing warned britain not to interfere in hong kongs affairs, after the foreign secretary, dominic raab, suggested there should be an investigation, into ongoing violence against pro democracy protestors. From hong kong, heres jonathan head. This is how it starts every weekend now in hong kong. Theyve turned improvising barricades into an art form. They work with impressive speed and coordination. There is never much time before the police arrive. These confrontations are now a familiar routine in hong kongs streets. Generally, the protesters retreat, avoiding direct contact. But, by nightfall, the clashes were happening in multiple locations across the city, and getting worse. The police are stressed, and acting at times with little restraint. This
should treasures grabbed by european colonisers be returned to their countries of origin? well, my guest is the director of the humboldt forum, hartmut dorgerloh. is germany right now the leader in the restitution movement? hartmut dorgerloh, welcome to hardtalk. hello. it s a great pleasure to be in this amazing museum. i think it s fair to say this is perhaps the most ambitious cultural project launched since the unification of germany. what is the. the motivating idea behind it? yes, it s the most prominent cultural project since the reunification in germany, and it is a debate also about the new heart of the new capital of reunified germany. so it was in the beginning more a discussion about the architecture, about urban development, what to do with the site where originally, for centuries, the main residence of the hohenzollern monarchy. a prussian palace was here. yes, a prussian palace. and after the second world war, when it was torn down, heavily damaged in the war b
to their countries of origin? well, my guest is the director of the humboldt forum, hartmut dorgerloh. is germany right now the leader in the restitution movement? hartmut dorgerloh, welcome to hardtalk. hello. it s a great pleasure to be in this amazing museum. i think it s fair to say this is perhaps the most ambitious cultural project launched since the unification of germany. what is the. the motivating idea behind it? yes, it s the most prominent cultural project since the reunification in germany, and it is a debate also about the new heart of the new capital of reunified germany. so it was in the beginning more a discussion about the architecture, about urban development, what to do with the site where originally, for centuries, the main residence of the hohenzollern monarchy. a prussian palace was here. yes, a prussian palace. and after the second world war, when it was torn down, heavily damaged in the war by the communist regime, it was replaced in the 19705 by the