We start in china where as youve been hearing telecoms giant huawei has launched a new legal challenge against the us. Its appealing a decision last month to stop us mobile phone companies from using government grants to buy its equipment. It follows a similar legal challenge in may against a ban on Us Government agencies from buying its kit. Lets get more on this story from our correspondent in shanghai, robin brant. What does huawei hope the practical effect of this will be . What do they hope to achieve with this challenge . They want to overturn a ban and we will have to wait and see what the us court of appeals thinks about that. But what it is also trying to do is demonstrate that it has the resources and the desire to push back and there is also a Public Relations exercise ongoing here, one in which huawei is spending a vast amount of money as it continues, frankly, in its fight with the Us Government. This is a fairly technical moved today, the second attempt in a year by huawe
that follows the police killing of a teenager on tuesday. 16,000 police have again been deployed, but there have been fewer incidents nationwide than on previous nights. president macron said he supported the security forces but was also looking in detail at the events that led to the death of nahel. he was scheduled to meet with german chancellor olaf scholz today but cancelled his trip on saturday. joining me now is tomasz michalski, associate professor of economics at the hec business school in paris. tomasz, fewer arrests overnight. what is the situation likely you in paris? where i am, i am in the leafy suburbs of western paris, there is nothing happening that you can observe, anything. but having said that, the night has been, in different places, especially in areas where you have a lot of council housing, high rise towers and projects, that s where most of the writing takes place night has been calmer. and in the inner city, where you have shops that can be looted
we begin in france, where unions will be staging strike action today against the government s pension reform plans. the government is aiming to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years. today marks the sixth day of strikes and protests since mid january, and unions say it will be the biggest yet with workers across a range of sectors expected to mobilise. teachers, gas and electricity workers, train drivers, and industrial workers are all expected to join. part of the french government plan is also to raise the minimum pension to 1,200 euro a month, which is over 550 euro higher than the current minimum figure. but unions want more due to rising inflation. let s go live to paris now and talk to tomasz michalski associate professor of economics at the hec business school in paris. we spoke about these injanuary but they are still continuing into march. but they are still continuing into march. , , . , , into march. the public support is there for into march. the public