what s going to incense, the protesters that you re going to see out on the streets of france today already christina we ve been seeing in the last few hours. people protesters blocking oil refineries. incinerators beginning to gather at key points. we expect fairly big strikes today. across transport networks. it is traffic controllers that will be affected trains metro s we re hearing that one of the terminals installed a goal is being blocked by protesters. even now, they will take to the streets of paris and other french cities. from two p.m. and we expect it to be a fairly large turnout because of course of the controversy surrounding not just the fact of this law, the raising of the age from 62 to 65 4 when french people can retire, but of course, the manner in which it has been pushed through without a vote in parliament that has really finished to wind up not just the trade unions at this point, christine, but i think it s important to point out also that amongst the broader pu
around to anywhere in france today was made difficult, if not impossible, in some areas by another day of french workers striking and against an increase in the retirement age in that country. today they targeted france s transport networks, oil refineries and schools and check out this video you can see protesters are actually blocking access to charles de gaulle airport this morning. this is one of the busiest airports in the world. today s long demonstrations are in response to the country s controversial new plan that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64. figure live to paris now and cnn s sam kiley and sam some of the unions that have been involved in these demonstrations. they re getting concerned that the protests may get more violent if there isn t a direct response from the government. yeah i mean, it has been a degree of violence called apologize for the fruity language there. this is a very
just as we associate the end of the war, world war ii, with a moment. and it looks as the recovery and reconstruction in ukraine, at least for the time being, is going to happen differently. just this month, earlier this month, the world bank announced $50 million to invest in repair and restoration of the transport networks, the transport infrastructure in ukraine. and that s how usaid is proceeding as we try to catalyze the involvement of the european bank for reconstruction development, the big international financial institutions, and to get the private sector to be interested in coming back to those parts of ukraine that are relatively peaceful. and even to continue to make investments elsewhere. we just struck a public private partnership with bayer, which is building a new seat factory in ukraine, which is going to employ thousands of ukrainians. the more ukrainians are employed, the more revenue there is, the less assistance will need to come from up
marshal plan like there was after 1945 to help europe rebuild. is that the kind of scale we need to be thinking about? well, i think we associate the marshall plan with a moment just as we do with the end of world war ii with a moment, and it looks as though recovery and reconstruction in ukraine at least for the time being is going to happen differently. just this month earlier this month the world bank announced $50 million to invest in the repair and restoration of the transport networks, the transport infrastructure in ukraine and that s how usaid is proceeding as we try to catalyze the involvement of the european bank for reconstruction, development, the big financial institutions and to get the private sector to be interested in coming back to those parts of ukraine that are relatively peaceful, and even, you know, to continue to make investments elsewhere. we just struck a public/private partnership with bayer which is