We're here today because it's out of the question to once again raise the retirement age.

It's time for them to understand that people also want to enjoy their lives.

We're not here to die in the job. We're here to be able to enjoy life one day too.

As many as three million people take to the streets of France as anger mounts over President Macron's move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

We'll go to March Say for the latest. We'll also talk to Congressmember Rocana about the banking crisis, TikTok and more.

Then investigative journalist James Banford reveals how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clandestantly tried to help Donald Trump get elected in 2016.

There was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign as a Mueller report concluded.

But what was totally missed was the collusion, very extensive collusion between the Prime Minister of Israel and the Trump campaign.

And we'll get an update from Atlanta on the protest against cop city. Those charge with domestic terrorism. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to democracy now democracy now dot or the warrant peace report. I'm Amy Goodman.

Israel passed a law Thursday to shield Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from removal as he faces a corruption trial and massive protests against anti-democratic reforms to disempower Israel's judiciary.

Scores of protesters were arrested Thursday during a more massive nationwide protest designed to bring Israel to a standstill. While Israel's attorney general said in the letter earlier today the plan to gut the justice system is illegal.

Netanyahu is meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the UK today as he arrived at 10 Downing Street. Netanyahu is greeted by a protestor, jeers and calls of shame and traitor.

Meanwhile, another Palestinian was killed Thursday as Ramadan was starting by Israeli forces during a raid in the occupied West Bank. 25-year-old Damiar Abu Qadija is at least the 85th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in 2023 or Israeli settlers.

In France, an estimated three and a half million people took to the streets Thursday in a nationwide general strike to protest Emmanuel President Emmanuel Macron's deeply unpopular move to raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64. His government forced the legislation through the National Assembly using a constitutional clause to bypass a parliamentary vote. This is a protestor in Nice.

I'm on strike to protest against the pension reform, but mainly also against what is happening in the government with the denial of democracy, which is quite significant right now. They are not listening to the people anymore, and it's important to us to be here so our voice can be heard and to say what is happening is not normal. If the people are against a reform, they should be heard.

After headlines will go to France for the latest. The United States and Canada have reached an agreement to block migrants from seeking asylum if they're apprehended attempting to cross the U.S. Northern border into Canada.

President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, are expected to announce the deal in Ottawa today during Biden's first official trip to Canada since taking office. Canada has also reportedly agreed to allow up to 15,000 Central American migrants into the country over the next year.

Tens of thousands of migrants have been making their way to Canada as the U.S. enforces harsher immigration policies. Advocates denounce the move as Biden's latest attempt to discourage people from even attempting to trek north for refuge.

Biden and Trudeau are also expected to discuss the worsening gang violence and humanitarian crisis in Haiti as the U.S. has been pushing the Canadian government to lead a multinational armed intervention of Haiti.

The Pentagon says it's carried out multiple airstrikes inside Syria, this according to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who said the overnight attacks were in response to a drone attack by Iran-back fighters that killed a U.S. military contractor wounded another and wounded five U.S. troops as well.

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the U.S. airstrikes killed 11 Iranian-backed fighters in three locations, though those reports could not be confirmed.

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