After his return from Argentina, French President Emmanuel Macron immediately paid a visit to the Arc de Triomphe. The famous triumphal arch in Paris suffered damage during the heavy riots of Saturday.
The French government is considering a temporary introduction of the state of emergency to new violent protests from 'yellow vests'. to prevent. The French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with his Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior on Sunday to discuss the ongoing riots. Among other things, they want to see how a dialogue can be started with the protest movement of yellow vests, which has no real leaders.
More than two hundred people from all over the country gathered in yellow vests for the Mauritshuis in The Hague this afternoon. 'The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer,' they say. 'For a small group it is no longer easy to handle.'
During the third demonstration of 'yellow vests' in Paris Saturday riots broke out again. The riot police seized hard. During confrontations, at least 65 people were injured, including eleven police officers, the police reported in the French capital at the end of the afternoon.
The French riot police fired tear gas in Paris and deployed a water thrower during a new demonstration of so-called Gilets Jaunes, demonstrators in yellow vests. The metropolitan police reports that 24 arrests have already been made.
The leaders of the 'yellow vests', the nickname of the spontaneous French protest movement against making diesel and petrol more expensive, said Wednesday that the organization is not going to talk to Édouard Philippe in the short term. The Prime Minister had invited a representative delegation of the 'Gilet Jaunes' to a conversation before the demonstrators took to the streets again on Saturday.
Chaos reigns on the Champs Élysées. In several places, fences and other street furniture have been thrown into a heap and set on fire. The police shoots water cannons and tear gas grenades to disperse the 'Yellow Hesjes' (citizen protest against tax increases and against the policy of President Macron).
Soon after the first demonstrators had set out for high fuel prices in Paris, the riot police had been bombarding tear gas and tear gas on Saturday morning with tear gas and water cannon. According to the police, the target was not in the first place the demonstrators, dressed in yellow vests ('gilets jaunes'), but in black dressed rioters and right-wing extremists.
A man in a yellow jacket threatens to detonate a grenade in the western French town of Angers if he does not like to hear President Emmanuel Macron. Minister of Home Affairs Christophe Castaner reported that the man at a gas station had shown an object that looked like a grenade.
French motorists are so fed up with the striking and blocking rioters in France that they have started a counter-action.
The French violent protest against the high (er) diesel prices is moving to Belgium. On Wednesday night, 'yellow vests' threw petrol bombs and stones on the Walloon motorways.
The 'Yellow Hesjes' are not finished with Emmanuel Macron. On Monday, the third consecutive day is protested against an increase in fuel prices. The demonstrators stabbed in yellow vests have blocked access to fuel stores in several places in the country.
After the massive protests of angry motorists Saturday, there are Sunday actions again because of high fuel prices. French media reported that people in yellow vests have been taken to the streets again and again, even though it is not that massive already a day earlier.
Angry drivers on Saturday morning early in France raised the first blockades in protest against rising fuel prices. Fifteen hundred slower actions are expected in all of the country.
The English boxer Anthony Crolla looked up for a while when he had to learn a urine sample after his match at the doping control. Instead of yellow, his urine was dark red.
The studio of the Italian TV program Di Martedì (On Tuesday) was turned upside down. Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Labor and also party leader of the popular ruling Party Five Star Movement, entered the hall. The audience in the hall greeted him with overwhelming applause and cheers.
An allergic reaction to a piece of cheese is a 13-year-old boy from London fatal. His classmate stopped the yellow food in the victim's T-shirt.
A huge balloon representing the London mayor Sadiq Khan in a yellow bikini may be raved over the British capital. According to the BBC, campaigners raised more than 58,000 pounds (65,000 euros) to have the approximately 9 meters long colossus made.
A simple yellow ribbon: almost eleven months after the independence referendum, it has become an important symbol in Catalonia- where fights are being fought for and against: by politicians, but also by people on the streets.
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Previously, the referee was Nick Clark, now she goes through life as Lucy. And that may not matter if you are a taxi driver- that is Nick / Lucy- but perhaps if you are also a semi-professional referee.
The Aeolus is a hypermodern wind vane that has to go into space this Tuesday. The satellite must, from 320 kilometers altitude, chart the wind on earth. There is still relatively little known about this.
A 26-year-old British speed demon who thought he could drive through Dubai in the middle of the night with 230 km / h, is allowed to tune 30,000 euros. The man did not notice that he was being flashed.
The world's largest smartphone supplier Samsung has presented the Galaxy Note9 in New York. The South Korean company also showed the Galaxy Watch, a new line of smartwatches, in the Big Apple sighing under a heat wave.
The Belgians have a serious shortage of drinking water due to the drought. They now get the advice to share swimming pools in the garden, but even to shower together and save water.
Activists of the environmentalist Greenpeace who oppose the use of coal have painted the road surface of a prominent square in Berlin as a protest. The roundabout around the Siegesäule (Victory Column), to the west of the Bundestag, has been treated with 3500 liters of yellow paint which, according to Greenpeace, is washable and environmentally friendly.
You would expect it in Zimbabwe sooner, but also with our southern neighbors it happens. A Belgian minister has several times with roaring sirens in escort transport through the country causing enormous traffic jams.
Two North Koreans have fled to South Korea by boat. The two were found by the South Korean army on the Yellow Sea, reports the Seoul-based news agency Yonhap on the basis of government sources.
French people are furious about an art project in which the Carcassonne Castle, which is a UNESCO world heritage site, is covered with yellow rings.
A European satellite that needs to monitor global warming was launched on Wednesday. The Sentinel-3B rose from a space base in the far north of Russia. It is the twin brother of the Sentinel 3A, which was already launched in 2016.
