Did you miss the news this early morning? We’ve put together a recap to help you see things more clearly.
The mobilization continues for pensions. Opponents of the reform are expected this Thursday in the street for an 11th day of protest. Yesterday, the long-awaited meeting between Elisabeth Borne and the inter-union ended in “failure” according to the unions, who see a “democratic crisis” in the Prime Minister’s refusal to withdraw the disputed text. Despite this disagreement, the head of government assured that she “did not plan to move forward without the social partners” on other work-related topics. This Thursday, Parisian train and transport traffic should however be less affected than for previous strikes. 20 minutes therefore provides you with an update on the planned disruptions.
The standoff continues between Beijing and Washington over Taiwan. The tension even went up a notch on Thursday with the dispatch of three Chinese warships and an anti-submarine helicopter near the island. It must be said that China is furious at the meeting the day before in California between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen and Republican Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the US House of Representatives. In order not to aggravate the situation, the Biden administration has however downplayed the importance of this event. The head of diplomacy Antony Blinken thus stressed that it was only a “transit” of the Taiwanese leader on American territory and not an official visit. He therefore called on Beijing not to use the interview as an “excuse” to “raise tensions”.
Justice will once again look into a controversial sequence broadcast on C8. A preliminary investigation was opened in Nanterre, in the Hauts-de-Seine, after a report from the Paris police headquarters on the presence of people wrongly presented as Brav-M police officers in Cyril Hanouna’s program . Last Friday, these three men and this woman indeed testified on the set of “TPMP” hooded, their voice modified and a police armband on their arm. Invited to the same program on Monday, Laurent Nuñez had indicated that he had taken legal action after the sequence, and that an “administrative investigation” was being carried out by the IGPN, the police force. According to the Paris police prefect, the presence of these four people “discredits” this unit, already accused of violence by demonstrators against the pension reform.