one most loved thanking up ariana vogue at the supreme court, and this is cnn. some breaking news protesters once again taking to the streets across france. it is the 10th straight day of demonstrations over government pension reforms in that country. cnn s sam kiley is live in paris right now, sam , we re looking at the images behind you. we see police in what looks like riot gear. walk us through what the scene is right now. so you joined me on the boulevard. voltaire on the marks is supposed to be finishing at the plastic began at the place de la republique, and it really goes this series of demonstrations to the heart of what it is to be french for so many people here out on the streets. what they re officially protesting about is the government plans to raise the pensionable age from 60 to 64. now they ve been pitched battles from what are called ultras, otherwise known as the black box
now standing by on the outskirts of the of this major central square here in paris, abby and that s because they fear that as night sets in, and this has been the pattern elsewhere. there will be again these groups of ultras of extremists that would fan out into the other streets, chucking rocks, and then they have this back and forth kind of street fighting that we ve seen over the last 10 days. but i think what s important about these demonstrations is twofold . one is that the numbers are a bit down, which is difficult for the unions to confront, although they admit that the numbers are down, and that is because it is becoming harder and harder. to get people out to go on strike, not because they re not motivated abby by their anger at these new reforms coming in from the macron government, but because they have been on strike on and off since the middle of january many cases and they re running out of money at home life is getting very difficult for people on strike, and the other
kev aims to run seven ultramarathons, one a day for seven days. the route is going to take him from murrayfield in edinburgh to melrose, newcastle, middlesbrough, york, leeds, bradford before he enters the field at old trafford during half time in the men s rugby league world cup final. doddie used to tease me all the time. kevin sinfield has run seven marathons in seven days, 101 miles in 24 hours. now, he is going to run seven ultramarathons in seven days and you ve done the square root of heave ho. thank you for coming out. thank you. so i was pretty much guilted into cycling alongside kevin for the first three or four days of his challenge. i think when we were planning the ultras, i d reached out and said, would you start us off?
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