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your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up, a major political

shake-up in Europe. France's government has collapsed for the second time in less than a year.

The political gridlock is paralyzing a country dealing with

serious economic issues and potential threats to their much-loved but costly social safety network.

We'll have the details. Later in the show, Venezuela's strongman might be blinking. President

Nicholas Maduro has pledged to fight drug trafficking, a move that, well, looks a lot like

a concession to Washington's demands. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We'll start things

off today in Paris, where for the second time in less than a year, the French government has

collapsed. Prime Minister Francois Bayru, who's only been in office for nine months, is out. He fell on Monday

after losing a brutal, no-confidence vote in France's National Assembly. The final tally wasn't

even close. It was 364 against him, and only 194 in support. Bayru is the fourth Prime Minister

to fall in the past 20 months, and now President

Emmanuel Macron has to go shopping for yet another replacement or call for elections.

The issue at the heart of this political train wreck, money, or more precisely, the lack of it,

France's massive debt crisis. To put it plainly, France is drowning in debt.

Bayru wanted to freeze welfare payments, cut national holidays, oh, Zutalor, as we say,

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