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First up, though.

Yesterday, Poland's Prime Minister appealed for calm after huge protests continued to rock the country over a strict new abortion law.

In a video message, Matys Morwietski called for dialogue with protesters and opposition leaders.

And they will not be the next ones to be defeated.

There have been demonstrations across the country every day since the ruling was handed down last month.

Last Friday in Warsaw alone, a hundred thousand people took to the streets.

The new ruling will ban abortions in cases of severe fetal defects.

Terminations will now only be legal when the mother's life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest.

But the scale of the backlash reveals a gap between public opinion and the ruling party's agenda.

There's a surprising amount of young people at the protests.

Annabelle Chapman writes about Poland for the economist and is based in Warsaw.

So mostly young women who have come out in the evening with these homemade placards.

Things do tend to heat up in the night and there's also been some tension here with some counter demonstrations by more right-wing elements.

But if you walk through Warsaw, then you can really see the traces of the protests because the symbol of the protests is a red lightning bolt.

And it has been repeated sort of everywhere on the pavements, on the walls of buildings.

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