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French police have just arrived. Big, big clash between protesters and then.

Forced us to go around the corner.

And we're actually just getting sort of more and more cornered into a central bit of Paris

because each street is now being cut off completely

either between protesters or the police or both and actually there are just loads of

civilians let's put it that way people who live in the area or have been out in the evening who

clearly are pretty trapped not entirely sure where to go because in every single direction you look now, there is chaos, there is disorder, there are people who are looking for some serious problem.

No! Paris is on fire And so you can go down and not see

either flame or the remains of flame, ember.

And as because the French capital is being gripped by the worst protests, anti-government

protests for years. And all of this comes down to one man, one man's agenda, one man's legacy, President Emmanuel Macron,

re-elected not even a year ago, but who has turned 70% of this country of the French electorate

against him. This episode is going to tell you

why, because we've spent the whole day on the streets of Paris, following the protesters, the good

and the bad, the full might of the French state out in force. And through that day, we're going to tell you exactly why this matters,

and more importantly, where this could be going.

Because this is bigger than Emmanuel Macron.

This is about the French Fifth Republic itself,

and how, in the end, one reform could yet spiral and lead to the election of that thing which has been

speculated about and thought about for year after year presidential cycle after presidential cycle

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