Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Different countries have dealt in different ways during the pandemic with exams for their

students, post-poning or plowing ahead, curtailing or cancelling. We dig through the results

and emerge with a broader view of the merits of high stakes tests.

And as Covid's economic effects have started to bite in South Africa, an existing problem

has gotten far worse.

Livestock theft. There's a thriving market for those in the know, and after a bit of rebranding

and reselling, it all looks a bit like cow-laundering.

First, in Paris this weekend, police fired tear gas at protesters, but violent clashes

with police weren't limited to the capital. Demonstrations have grown since two videos

showing alleged police brutality emerged last week. Later today, the Interior Minister

responsible for the police will face a parliamentary hearing into the violence. What's fed the anger

is a bill currently being debated that would make it illegal to post or broadcast videos

or photos of police if that posting is with malevolent intent. It would bolster protections

for the country's police, but it comes after a year in which police violence, both in France

and around the world, has been brought to light through videos.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets despite lockdown, not just in Paris, but

in cities all over the country.

Sophie Better is the economist's Paris bureau chief.

There were some violent clashes, not everywhere, but some violent clashes with the police.

There were stones thrown at the police, cars set a light at newspaper, kiosk set a light.

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