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Third day of mobilization against pension reform this Tuesday
Classes closed, trains canceled and many parades: the unions hope for a third massive mobilization on Tuesday against the pension reform, to maintain pressure on the deputies who have just opened hostilities in the hemicycle. United against the postponement of the legal age to 64, the eight main French unions intend to continue to put pressure on the executive, after two successful days with more than a million demonstrators, according to the authorities. With more than 200 rallies planned in the country, a security source evokes a range of 900,000 to 1.1 million demonstrators, including 70,000 maximum in Paris. To control the crowds, 11,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized, including 4,000 in the capital.
The toll of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, still provisional, exceeds 4,300 dead
The death toll from the earthquake in southeastern Turkey and neighboring Syria continues to mount. According to the latest official report on Tuesday morning, nearly twenty hours after the first of three tremors, with a magnitude of 7.8, felt as far away as Lebanon, Cyprus and northern Iraq, more than 4,300 people found the dead, including 2,921 in Turkey according to the public disaster management body (Afad) and more than 1,440 in Syria. The Turkish head of state has declared national mourning for seven days and the closure of schools for the week. During the night from Monday to Tuesday, the rescuers fought hard in the cold, in the pouring rain or snow, sometimes with their bare hands, to save every life that could be saved.
Vote in the Senate for the final adoption of the text on renewable energies
The bill for the acceleration of renewable energies carried by Agnès Pannier-Runacher is reaching its goal: after long consultations and tough negotiations, Parliament is preparing to adopt it definitively on Tuesday, by a final vote of the Senate. In the midst of the energy crisis, this text aims to make France catch up on its great delay in renewable energies. After having been the subject of a compromise between deputies and senators, the text must be adopted in the afternoon, at the heart of a day of mobilization against the pension reform. It intends to meet the objective set by Emmanuel Macron for 2050 to multiply by ten the production capacity of solar energy to exceed 100 GW and to deploy 50 wind farms at sea to reach 40 GW.