This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Tuesday,

the 2nd of May, these are our main stories.

Police clashed with protesters taking part in May Day rallies in France

against the rise in pension age.

The UN warrants Sudan is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as fighting continues.

A Google engineer widely considered to be the godfather of artificial intelligence

has quit his job with the warning about the growing dangers of AI.

Also in this podcast, women whose husbands were taken from Russian prisons

to fight the war in Ukraine say they're left with no information about their loved ones.

We find out about the man honoured at one of fashion's biggest events of the year and

I wouldn't classify all writers as being poor or broke but I can say

myself I have six dollars in my bank account.

We're in Los Angeles where last minute talks are being held to a verters strike

by Hollywood film and TV writers.

We start in France.

We're hundreds of thousands of people have attended May Day protests and

invented their anger against President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the retirement

age from 62 to 64. As we were hearing there, violent clashes erupted in some cities.

The authorities say more than 100 police were injured and nearly 300 people were detained.

The French Prime Minister Elizabeth Warren said the violence was unacceptable.

And Ashley Goulet, a member of the French Senate for an opposition party, the UDI,

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