hello and welcome to bbc news. france is braced for more protests in the coming days over pension reforms, following the cancellation of king charles state visit to the country. the king and queen consort camilla were due to arrive in paris tomorrow, but president macron said it was common sense to cancel the trip. demonstrations are planned this weekend against water shortages, while blockades of oil refineries are leading to fuel shortages on some garage forecourts. simonjones has the latest. police patrolling the streets of paris last night, trying to prevent a repeat of scenes like these. on thursday, what had been largely peaceful protests against the president and his pension reforms turned violent. that night, piles of uncollected rubbish in the capital were satellite. the french authorities say almost 1000 fires were started. this was nantes. and similar scenes on the streets of strasberg. and in bordeaux, the entrance to the town hall was satellite. this city, alo
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effect at this hour in multiple mississippi counties. those warns are bound to pop up in alabama as well as the storm system keeps moving east. we ll have breaking news, updates on what transpires across the south as the show goes on. tension with the teheran are growing for r the second day in a row. u.s. forces were under attack by irairanian proxy group. an american contractor was killed and several u.s. forces were wounded. our chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, is live on how the u.s. is responding. good evening, the u.s. still has troops in syria. they have been there since 2015. there are around 900 troops on t tthe ground and they are und attack once again tonight. fox news learned there had been injuries in these new rocket attacks in eastern syria. believed to be carried out with iranian weapons. on thursday, a drone attack again using iranian equipment killed one u.s. contractor and wounded several u.s. troops. prompting retaliatory strikes by american forces
explaining quote to protect your life and take cover. now a former mayor of rolling fork also described the tornado hitting his home, telling a local television station at the tornado blew the windows out of the back of his house and the sharkey county sheriff s office reporting several gas leaks and people still trapped in piles of rubble. mississippi governor tate reeves saying in a twitter post that search and rescue teams are active right now, and that more ambulances and emergency assets are also being sent to help those who have been affected. the governor also saying quote many in the mississippi delta need your prayers and god s protection. and this storm is not over yet. let s go now to fox weather meteorologist jane men are for the very latest on the track of the storm. jane hello, marianne . yeah definitely. just a devastating night. we saw these storms really start to fire up once the sun went down and tracked across mississippi, where we saw the worst of the dama
sparked police investigation, the criminal case in a family torn apart. teacher took her own life when her school was downgraded. welcome. from security to diplomacy and us presidentjoe biden open remarks to canada s wednesday with a bond short to canada before getting down to business. he spoke of the long standing partnership between the two nations in the need to work together on issues like climate change and trade. president biden and his counterpartjustin trudeau also agreed to a deal to stop asylum seekers seeking to move across the border by unofficial crossings. 0n global security president biden said that china has not yet delivered arms to russia. 1 don t take china lately. i don t take russia lately. but i think we vastly exaggerate. i would, i have been here now for the past three months about how china is going to provide significant weapons to russia. they haven t yet. does not mean that they will not. but they have not. and if anything has happened the west ha