00:02Widespread demonstrations once again broke out across France on the weekend,
00:06marking the fifth consecutive Saturday of nationwide protests.
00:10Yellow Vests, students and education unions took to the streets to voice a range of frustrations,
00:17from rising costs of living and calls for better funding for education
00:20to stronger protection for children and teenagers.
00:24On demand to have professors when we go to school.
00:26We ask not to have the floor floor when we eat in the kitchen.
00:28We ask, when we have a degree, despite the conditions that are degraded every year,
00:32to continue our journey at the university.
00:35Many also expressed opposition to a new police bill.
00:39What the law permitted to kill, which is put in the vote the next week,
00:43is literally that a policeman who will shoot will first be presumed to have acted legitimately.
00:49An impunity of more for those who trap us, gas us and mutil us.
00:53School blockades and protests calling for better wages have swept across the country for more than a month.
01:00Unions have called for another day of strikes on Tuesday,
01:03saying the government's promise to increase the minimum wage by 0.6% is not enough.
01:13Thousands marched through Lisbon and dozens of other cities across Portugal on Saturday
01:18to protest rising costs of living and stagnating incomes.
01:22Protesters were also calling for stronger tenant protection,
01:25more public housing and measures to curb housing speculation.
01:29The demonstrations come as the government adopted a new bill
01:32that would make it easier and faster for property owners to evict tenants.
01:37The government believes this would encourage landlords to put more properties on the rental market,
01:42but housing rights movements believe it will leave tenants more vulnerable
01:45and call for stronger rent regulation instead.
01:49The demonstrations began last month and often involved encampments.
01:53The government has taken a stern line against these tent camps
01:57and have frequently sent in police to forcibly clear them.
02:00In Portugal, housing prices have risen far quicker than incomes over the past decade
02:05at the fastest rate in the EU.
02:08Surging tourism, more foreign buyers as well as remote workers and retirees,
02:13property owners shifting to short-term rentals and lagging housing construction
02:17have all contributed to the problem.
02:23Pope Leo XIV is holding a Mass in Santa Cruz de Suchabamba in northern Peru on Saturday
02:29as he continues his tour of South America, drawing huge crowds
02:33as people seek to catch a glimpse of the 71-year-old pontiff.
02:37On Friday, the Pope returns to his adopted hometown of Chiclayo,
02:41where he served as bishop from 2015 to 2023.
02:46He went to one of the poorest neighborhoods to visit a chapel he helped rebuild
02:50and also spoke at the city's Catholic university.
02:54On Saturday, the Pope is also visiting the hub of Afro-Peruvian culture in the city of Zanya,
03:00where he often visited as bishop of Chiclayo.
03:03But the huge crowds turning out to see the Pope have prompted heightened fears
03:07among health authorities in Latin America, which has seen a surge in measles cases this year.
03:13The concern is mainly linked to low vaccination rates in some countries,
03:17particularly Argentina and Peru.
03:20It comes as measles cases in the U.S. have also exploded due to slipping vaccination rates.
03:26In the run-up to the Pope's visit,
03:28Peruvian authorities stepped up vaccination campaigns,
03:31focusing especially on areas with higher transmission rates.
03:39Passengers travelling to and from the United States continue to face delays
03:43and cancellations to flights on Saturday morning,
03:46despite the Federal Aviation Administration having lifted a nationwide ground stop.
03:51The rare order had been issued on Friday following a telecommunications outage,
03:56with all flights halted across the country.
03:59Trump administration officials said new technology being added to the nation's air traffic control system
04:05overloaded antiquated equipment and caused intermittent communications and radar gaps,
04:10leading to the flight shutdown of more than four hours.
04:14More than 2,500 flights were cancelled on Saturday and hundreds more were delayed
04:19as airlines across the U.S. worked to return operations to normal.
04:24The incident marked the first national stop since January 2023,
04:29and only the second since the 9-11 attacks in 2001.
