00:00 Roadblocks cleared by police in New Caledonia as authorities in Paris renew calls for calm.
00:06 Tensions remain high in the French overseas territory with President Emmanuel Macron due in Noumia on Wednesday.
00:14 The situation is not back to normal but it's getting better.
00:19 We're lucid and a lot needs to be done before things go back to normal.
00:25 The President announced to the Council of Ministers that he will be heading there this evening to set up a mission.
00:30 Violence erupted in New Caledonia last week after the French National Assembly rubber-stamped a bill to allow changes to the territory's electoral laws.
00:40 It would allow residents who've lived in New Caledonia for a period of 10 years the right to vote in provincial elections.
00:46 It's a change the indigenous Kanak people say will further erode their rights.
00:53 We won't give up until they withdraw the text they're about to vote on.
00:56 No, no, we won't give up.
00:59 Even if we have to die for it, we'll stay here on the roadblocks.
01:01 The crisis here is a big fail.
01:04 Because the French government doesn't know how to control people here.
01:10 All the people, they are always in front of the
01:14 police and military and soldiers. They've said stop it, Macron, stop it with the law.
01:22 France has dispatched over a thousand gendarmes from the mainland to restore calm with the state of emergency in the territory still in effect.
01:29 On Tuesday, Australia and New Zealand began repatriating their citizens with the main airport in New Caledonia still closed.
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