police in the french capital and other cities are bracing for a 14th day of major protests tuesday against france s new pension law. one media organization says it expects as many as 600,000 protestors across the country angry after the government raised retirement age from 62 to 64. and it comes two days before france s national assembly is set to debate the law. one french journalist has made covering the protest his exclusive beat and he spoke with cnn s melissa bell. reporter: another pitched battle between protesters and police in the heart of paris. the images captured by a journalist who has made this his specialty. he s covered every major french protest the last seven years. his focus? to document the many uprisings
and ehrlichman were concerned, that we were in a growing pitched battle where they were going to try to take me down, and to solve this problem, i m going have to take them down. i knew at the time that i was blowing up my career, my future. but i decided i would prepare a statement. it says some may hope or think i ll become a scapegoat in the watergate case. anyone who believes this does not know me, know the true facts, nor understand our system of justice. i m publicly stating i m not going to be the scapegoat. i m firing a shot across the bow of haldeman, ehrlichman and the president. the reason that these powerful individuals find someone to scapegoat is because they need an out themselves because they know the things they have done, and they re
they were both drafted by ehrlichman i later learned which doesn t surprise me. i understood the way the white house work that people at the top didn t take responsibility but rather blame somebody else. create a scapegoat. it was standard operating procedure. i made it very clear i wouldn t consider signing either of them. after that conversation, i realized i have failed to convince my colleagues and nixon that this thing has got to end and i m going to be the one that has to blow this all up. the more he tried to convince them that together they had to do something that was more or less make this right, the more he realized that that if that didn t work, he was going to end up on the short end of the stick. i realized as far as halder lemon and ehrlichman were concerned, that we were in a growing pitched battle where they were going to try to take me down and to solve this
military prepares for an intensification of russian aggression in the east, mariupol is also preparing itself more than 40 days now that this city has been completely surrounded. there are fears now from ukrainian officials that they could be even using potentially or preparing to use russian forces, phosphorous munitions with potentially devastating effect because describe the indiscriminate and relentless bombardment, russian forces have still not yet been able to take over the city and the mayor of mariupol, just a few days ago, told cnn that he believes the ultimate goal appears to be right now to wipe mariupol off the face of the earth. one more thing that s worth underscoring here in terms of why this has been the site of such a pitched battle, this is strategically a very important city for the russians to capture. it would allow them to have a sort of land corridor from the