FRANCE24 — broadcast 20261105 080000 UTC 429 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:07] It's 9 a.m. here in Paris. Hello everyone and welcome to [00:00:11] Let's Talk About It, your appointment with [00:00:14] costs. We can even say that it's a the news that takes its time. Here are the headlines for this Thursday. Public and private [00:00:16] sector employees are called to stop work this November 5th in [00:00:20] France for salaries and against the high cost of living. High school students and university students [00:00:24] electricity and [00:00:25] are tired of seeing the education are expected to join some of the 250 protests planned throughout [00:00:27] the country. A national strike day of mobilization, called by unions that [00:00:31] also disrupt France 24. 7,000 police [00:00:35] officers and gendarmes are mobilized. [00:00:38] What consequences will the mid-term elections have on the [00:00:41] war in Ukraine? Talks under American mediation are set to resume [00:00:45] next week in Abu Dhabi. [00:00:48] of France. It uses We will be in Kyiv for this news report. [00:00:51] The American consulate in Hong Kong strongly condemns the prison [00:00:54] sentence imposed on Joshua Wong, the 30-year-old pro-democracy [00:00:58] activist, the face of resistance against Beijing, will [00:01:02] remain incarcerated for 10 more years. [00:01:16] This is a new day of mobilization that [00:01:18] the French internet. This begins today in France, the first since September to concern the [00:01:21] public sector and the private sector. And it will also see high school [00:01:26] which many people have already students and university students join in, engaged [00:01:27] purchasing power? So a few months before for several weeks in a standoff with the government. A strike call [00:01:30] launched by the inter-union, a call for gatherings, demonstration [00:01:34] routes are subjects of a standoff with the authorities, we will [00:01:38] come back to that. Among the demands are the revaluation of [00:01:42] and others less salaries, the safeguarding of public services and the defense precisely [00:01:44] of the right to demonstrate. What will be the extent of the mobilization? [00:01:48] The report from our colleagues at France Télévision: [00:01:53] electricity, power. [00:01:53] the inter-union, but also Public sector employees, private sector, students and [00:01:56] retirees, there should be more than 500,000 to... [00:02:00] protest everywhere in France today. A strike day [00:02:02] that comes after three consecutive Saturdays of [00:02:06] mobilization and on the back of a high school student anger that [00:02:09] has been expressed for several weeks now. So we are calling on all high school students [00:02:13] to block their schools in the morning and join the protests in the afternoon. Young people [00:02:16] will join workers to denounce the cost of [00:02:20] living. The demands of the inter-union for this [00:02:23] social movement are clear: a revaluation of salaries, pensions [00:02:29] more. A consequence of and aid, more tax justice, better efforts against global [00:02:33] warming and a revision of the 2027 budget project which [00:02:36] foresees the freezing of social benefits and a reduction in [00:02:40] resources allocated to public services. But for the route of their [00:02:43] processions, unions are still opposing the authorities. Prefects [00:02:46] can prohibit or modify them. In Paris, for [00:02:50] example, strikers will not be able to [00:02:54] hot with the pool's own fluid march from Bastille to Concorde, but will have to settle for a route from Place de la République to [00:02:58] Nation, at the risk of being [00:03:00] apprehended by the police. [00:03:04] that none of its clients will lose What surprises us is that the police prefecture justifies its refusal of our Bastille-Concorde route on the [00:03:07] security context and imposes an alternative route [00:03:11] that it refused us two weeks ago for security reasons. The [00:03:15] Ministry of Interior is deploying on its side the same system as during the [00:03:19] last demonstrations, including elite units. We are [00:03:22] mobilizing again 70,000 police officers and gendarmes throughout the [00:03:25] national territory. We are extremely vigilant because it is out of the [00:03:29] question to experience in any way, even slightly, what we experienced [00:03:33] on October 17th. The government fears the arrival of black [00:03:36] blocs, wild processions and looting or damage to [00:03:40] businesses. Last Saturday, 779 [00:03:43] people were apprehended, without major incidents throughout the [00:03:47] territory. [00:03:50] And we're going to find Pauline Godar who is in Aubervilliers in the Parisian [00:03:53] region in front of a high school. Hello Pauline, high school students and [00:03:57] university students who are invited to join the... processions and to [00:04:00] mobilize today as well. I see that there are people behind you, [00:04:04] Pauline. Yes, indeed, there are several dozen students [00:04:08] who have gathered since very early this morning in front of the [00:04:11] Le Corbusier high school. We can read, "We want the [00:04:15] same opportunities and equality, Le Corbusier [00:04:20] a portion of its own funds, is in the streets." That's what we can read at least on the different banners that are [00:04:23] hung on the fences along the [00:04:26] Le Corbusier high school. These high school students who tell us [00:04:29] they are always [00:04:32] That's all for a part of the essential motivated to want to continue this movement, [00:04:34] this student movement to demand more resources [00:04:38] and to have the same education for everyone throughout [00:04:42] France. We can hear them, moreover, chanting since earlier, "We are here, we [00:04:45] are here, we are here." And now I can see that they [00:04:49] have set fire to two trash cans just behind me. They [00:04:53] are trying to block the [00:04:56] street. I spoke with several teachers, notably, who went on [00:05:00] strike, notably Ocean and Jean-Baptiste. They told us that they [00:05:04] went on strike because they also first want to [00:05:08] support the students' movement, but they also [00:05:11] demand and... They have the same demands as them, that there are too many [00:05:15] problems with teacher non-replacement and big problems [00:05:18] also with resources. They also told us that they were very [00:05:21] proud of their students, of these high school students who have been mobilizing [00:05:25] for several weeks now. It's the same for [00:05:28] Claire and notably Jean-Baptiste who [00:05:32] explained that they were there because they [00:05:37] budget decrease over time, and that's why today [00:05:41] they are on strike. There are also many parents [00:05:44] of students, and notably Aurélie who explained to me earlier that she [00:05:48] comes every morning to support her son who is in this [00:05:52] high school, to support the students, but also to make sure that [00:05:56] everything goes well. A little earlier we saw some [00:06:00] police officers who came to remove the different trash cans that [00:06:03] were blocking one of the accesses in front of one of the doors of the [00:06:07] high school. You see, the atmosphere is starting a little [00:06:10] to... the atmosphere is starting a little [00:06:12] to change. It's still a bit good natured, but it's true that with these trash cans that [00:06:16] are being lit, you also heard some [00:06:20] smoke bombs, and we saw a smoke bomb earlier too, so we can [00:06:23] hear them again. We'll see how it goes. And [00:06:27] there's an intervention, I think, at [00:06:31] the trash can again with fire, perhaps an intervention. We know that the [00:06:35] police are not far, there may be an intervention shortly [00:06:38] by the police. We know that there will be a gathering in front of the Aubervilliers town [00:06:43] hall where the various unions are called [00:06:47] to gather, but also the high school unions, but also high school students, [00:06:50] university students, they are called to gather in front of the Aubervilliers [00:06:53] town hall to then head towards Paris, towards [00:06:57] Paris, where a large gathering and this [00:07:00] large demonstration will take place, starting from République at the call of [00:07:05] bringing together the Yellow Vests, students and [00:07:09] high school students. In front of Le Corbusier in Aubervilliers, [00:07:13] take care, Pauline, thank you very much for the demonstration routes, as we [00:07:16] said, which have been for several hours, a source of conflict [00:07:19] with the authorities. The Minister of Interior Laurent [00:07:23] Nunez announced in recent hours that 7,000 [00:07:26] police and gendarmes would be deployed across the country to prevent, [00:07:30] he says, overflows and to show, I quote [00:07:33] always, "extreme firmness." [00:07:36] Look at [00:07:40] the city center of Limoges, about fifteen businesses are protected by [00:07:43] wooden panels to prevent possible damage [00:07:47] on the sidelines of the demonstration planned today. Their managers are [00:07:51] rather serene. "We are fine for [00:07:54] now, we have no fear, if anything happens, in any [00:07:57] case, we close the store." Everywhere in [00:08:00] France, a large security system is deployed to manage this [00:08:04] new day of social mobilization with similar numbers to [00:08:07] October 24 and 31, in total [00:08:10] 70,000 police and gendarmes. 110 mobile forces and elite [00:08:14] units such as the RAID, the GIGN and the BRI. [00:08:17] Their missions were detailed by the Minister of Interior: [00:08:21] securing the processions, [00:08:23] impacting high-risk groups, wild processions, anything that will create [00:08:27] overflows. The system will aim to [00:08:31] intervene to disperse, systematically arrest, [00:08:35] as was done extremely effectively on [00:08:38] October 24 and 31. Armored vehicles, [00:08:41] helicopters, and drones will also be deployed. The government [00:08:45] particularly fears the presence of radical groups likely to mix with peaceful [00:08:49] processions. [00:08:52] And it is in this tense social context that discussions are currently [00:08:55] being held in the National Assembly around the [00:08:59] budget. We will come back to that in a moment. Faiza Younsi, [00:09:03] hello. Hello, this is the news with [00:09:06] you. We are interested with you in the motive behind [00:09:09] this day of mobilization and one of its main motives is purchasing [00:09:13] power. One in two French people feels economically fragile. Yes, a shocking figure that [00:09:16] shows the extent of the feeling of disengagement among [00:09:20] French households. This comes from the purchasing power barometer which launched [00:09:23] a study of 12,000 people. [00:09:26] Behind this collective, there are about sixty [00:09:30] organizations, associations, foundations, [00:09:32] mutuals, unions. This collective was launched in [00:09:36] 2019 after the Yellow Vests. So we will come back to this figure, one in two [00:09:39] French people who feels economically fragile, that means that half of [00:09:43] French people have difficulty making ends meet, living [00:09:46] properly, living with dignity. There is another piece of information that is highlighted [00:09:50] in this barometer, another figure, the poverty rate, 15% of [00:09:54] French people, or 10 million people who live below the [00:09:57] poverty line. This is a figure that is the highest [00:10:01] in 30 years. Beyond these statistics, it obviously [00:10:04] impacts all aspects of life, starting with [00:10:07] food. One in two French people excludes quality [00:10:10] food. One in five French people regularly skips [00:10:14] meals for financial reasons, and then it goes far beyond that since [00:10:18] one fifth of parents say they also [00:10:21] give up on schooling for their children [00:10:25] because of the cost. And still according to this study, households are [00:10:29] pessimistic about the evolution of their purchasing power. Yes, that's what [00:10:32] this study also says, that they don't feel that it will get [00:10:36] better, especially because of energy [00:10:39] source of anxiety, more than half of the people [00:10:42] surveyed anticipate a decrease in the standard of living, mainly because [00:10:46] of the cost of heating, [00:10:49] fuel. Another study that was published about [00:10:52] fifteen days ago revealed that three [00:10:56] quarters of French people had noticed a decrease in their purchasing power in recent months. It [00:11:00] must be said that there have been several inflation peaks in recent [00:11:03] years, three in 5 years in France and elsewhere in Europe. There [00:11:07] was one at the end of Covid during the economic recovery, there was one [00:11:11] during the outbreak of the war in Ukraine and then the last one to [00:11:15] date was in March of this year with the blocking of the Strait [00:11:18] of Hormuz which pushed up the price of a barrel of oil. So [00:11:22] obviously it has weighed on purchasing power since... all these years [00:11:25] according to INSEE, the average real salary per capita in [00:11:29] France, that is to say the salary that takes inflation into account, is [00:11:33] today lower than that of 2021 and the [00:11:36] salary negotiations this year should only compensate for [00:11:39] inflation, the rise in prices. Conclusion: in 2026 it will not [00:11:43] get better, we should remain at 0% real salary [00:11:46] increase. What are the options to boost [00:11:52] the presidential election, obviously the candidates and political parties are well aware that [00:11:56] answers must be provided to this social crisis. Today this general [00:11:59] strike is the 4th mobilization against the high cost of living [00:12:02] in less than a month. So first on the most basic needs, since as we saw [00:12:06] one in two French people excludes quality food, it's [00:12:10] enormous. Thirty associations support a bill [00:12:14] whose objective is to make these quality foods more [00:12:17] accessible. It involves forcing large supermarkets to sell at least one [00:12:21] hundred healthy products almost at cost price. There [00:12:25] was a bill that was carried by the environmentalists and which was [00:12:28] rejected in the Senate, but a similar text will be examined in the [00:12:31] Assembly. Finally, the most obvious thing would obviously be to [00:12:34] increase salaries, that they be raised, a solution that is [00:12:37] obviously advocated by Republicans and the Socialist Party. They propose [00:12:41] to abolish certain lines of contributions to increase the [00:12:45] net amount on the payslip. The RN wants a 10% [00:12:49] salary increase up to three times the minimum wage. And finally, the environmentalists [00:12:52] and LFI are mainly advocating for a raise in the legal minimum wage. [00:12:56] Thank you, sorry, thank you very much, Faiza, that was [00:12:59] the eco news. That's what we could say about this day of social mobilization in [00:13:03] France which has disrupted the France 24 broadcasts, this news being produced by [00:13:06] non-striking staff. Still on the subject [00:13:10] of economy, er, forgive [00:13:13] me, it's complicated this morning. This major cyber attack against a French [00:13:17] bank, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and its online bank [00:13:20] Fortuneo. More than 100 million euros were reportedly stolen by [00:13:24] hackers then converted into cryptocurrency. The group assures [00:13:29] money. A week ago, it was the cryptocurrency giant Binance that [00:13:32] was hacked. Take a look. [00:13:35] This student learned the news this morning [00:13:38] when trying to log into her account. "An [00:13:42] ongoing technical incident is causing the unavailability of all [00:13:45] transfers." Her bank, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, was [00:13:48] the victim of a cyber attack. I [00:13:51] have rent to pay, it's the first of the month and... [00:13:55] for something like that to happen, it's worrying. It shows that it's [00:13:59] possible to get into the system, so [00:14:02] security is not as [00:14:05] assured as the [00:14:07] advertisements make us believe. The attack was [00:14:11] revealed by an American specialized in cryptocurrencies. [00:14:15] Two days ago, he alerted on his Telegram account: "Funds [00:14:19] have been stolen from a European entity." The [00:14:22] bank only acknowledged this digital robbery this morning. It [00:14:25] lost at least 100 million [00:14:28] euros. [00:14:31] So what happened at Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, even though [00:14:34] it was rewarded a few weeks ago for its innovation in [00:14:37] cybersecurity? The hackers were actually able to access [00:14:41] the bank's servers and steal [00:14:45] money then converted into cryptocurrency. This is a [00:14:49] first of its kind, at least the last time that so much [00:14:51] money was stolen from a bank, it [00:14:55] was perhaps during a case in a real bank where they [00:14:58] stole, broke into a safe. Ever since money was [00:15:02] digitized, normally this kind of thing was no longer possible, but in fact we just saw [00:15:06] that, well, yes, it's possible again. The hackers [00:15:09] disseminated the money across several accounts hosted on cryptocurrency [00:15:13] platforms. And it was divided into several small pieces so as [00:15:17] to make this recovery almost impossible, its identification [00:15:21] almost impossible, and the risk that it would be blocked or frozen [00:15:25] very, very minimal. Could an attack of this type one day [00:15:29] affect customer bank accounts? Nothing can be ruled out according to this [00:15:32] expert. [00:15:36] The risk of accounts of several hundreds of thousands of customers being [00:15:39] siphoned off, that's a risk to be taken seriously, [00:15:43] it's real, it can happen. That is to say, we are facing [00:15:46] a super intelligence that is able to [00:15:49] bypass and skip all these controls. The bank assures [00:15:53] this evening that its customers have not been affected and remain [00:15:56] protected. It has filed a complaint, an investigation has been [00:15:59] opened. We're changing regions of the world, [00:16:03] heading to Asia. He is one of the figures of the pro-democracy movement in Hong [00:16:07] Kong, Joshua Wong, 30 years old, already detained for almost 6 [00:16:11] years, has just been sentenced to 10 more years in prison. These are archival images that [00:16:14] you are seeing. He faced life imprisonment [00:16:18] for collusion, according to the prosecution, with foreign countries, in [00:16:22] application of the national security law desired by Beijing to bring to heel [00:16:26] this Hong Kong territory that was long autonomous. Listen to our correspondent Baptiste [00:16:29] Falvos from Beijing. He was due to be released from prison in a few months [00:16:33] after serving an initial sentence of 4 years and 8 months for subversion. [00:16:37] Joshua Wong will therefore apparently remain 10 more years behind bars. The Hong Kong [00:16:41] tribunal found him guilty of collusion with foreign countries. [00:16:44] He was accused of having put pressure on these countries and on [00:16:48] international institutions to sanction China on the international [00:16:51] stage. And once again Joshua Wong suffers the fate [00:16:54] of this national security law that was imposed by [00:16:58] Beijing in 2020 to silence all dissent in Hong Kong, and under [00:17:04] been sentenced to heavy sentences. Joshua Wong is one of the [00:17:08] figures, if not the figure, of the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong. [00:17:11] He has been an activist since the age of 15, he has been involved in many struggles, [00:17:15] notably during the immense demonstrations of 2019 in Hong Kong against [00:17:18] the increasing interference of Beijing, of mainland China, on [00:17:22] the territory. Let us recall that Hong Kong, retroceded to China in [00:17:26] 1997, must normally retain its political, [00:17:29] legislative, and legal status until [00:17:32] 2047, according to the famous slogan "one country, two systems." [00:17:35] This is not the reality, however, since [00:17:37] China has accelerated in recent years its takeover of the [00:17:41] territory. Freedom of expression is increasingly muzzled, [00:17:44] demonstrations are almost non-existent. A little earlier this year, [00:17:47] moreover, businessman and press baron Jimmy Lai was also [00:17:51] sentenced, still under this national security law, to 20 years in [00:17:55] prison, the heaviest sentence so far against a Hong Kong [00:17:58] dissident. [00:20:09] news. Let's talk continues in a little ten minutes, a shortened [00:20:13] edition today exceptionally due to the social movement here in France. See you [00:20:16] later. [00:20:24] They observe, alert, [00:20:28] they testify, film, [00:20:30] photograph, they are the voice of the [00:20:33] voiceless, they are your eyes in the four corners of the world. [00:20:38] The Observers, a network of 5,000 engaged citizens alongside [00:20:42] France 24. For our observer, the operation is well [00:20:46] calculated, amateur images and testimonies [00:20:50] verified by our journalists, broadcast every week in Les [00:20:53] Observateurs on France 24. [00:21:07] What if I told you that 5 billion humans surf the internet and social [00:21:10] networks, two out of three Earthlings, [00:21:12] that the world already has 34 billion [00:21:16] digital devices, computers, phones, screens, connected [00:21:20] objects, and that in 2023 Google [00:21:24] extracted 28 billion liters of water to cool its data [00:21:28] centers? [00:21:30] Hello and welcome to Plan B, the economy differently. Digital [00:21:33] is not immaterial, it already represents two to three times the carbon footprint [00:21:38] tons of rare metals and operates thanks to Data [00:21:42] Centers, real energy gobblers, which host and [00:21:45] manage our data. Can digital lighten its ecological [00:21:49] impacts, and if so, how? At the gates of Paris, an Olympic [00:21:53] swimming pool and a future district use the heat released [00:21:56] by a giga data center. The [00:22:00] sound of fans running at full speed and a thermometer around [00:22:03] 30°, welcome to PADIS, one of the lungs of [00:22:08] data center is a huge safe. It will contain everything that makes [00:22:12] up our digital life, so movies that we can watch in streaming, our [00:22:16] photos that are on our phones and... in the cloud. There will also [00:22:20] be all our office elements and all the [00:22:23] data in fact that we can generate in this digital universe that exists [00:22:27] today. Among the clients hosted here are internet giants [00:22:32] known. Companies manage their data, the data center, [00:22:35] the building. We don't touch the data, we provide [00:22:39] infrastructure so cages, [00:22:43] The company takes care of its equipment, but it does not take care [00:22:46] of the building, of the security of the building, of the cooling of its [00:22:50] equipment. Cooling accounts for an average of 40% of the energy [00:22:53] expenditure of a data center. At [00:22:56] PA10, liquid cooling is gradually gaining power. This new [00:23:00] much more efficient system does not cool the room's air, but [00:23:03] directly cools the computer chip. Today, there are more and more [00:23:07] clients who are doing high density or quite [00:23:11] powerful calculations, and therefore who are using [00:23:15] materials that consume much more energy and heat much [00:23:19] artificial intelligence in full growth, PA10 will [00:23:22] so generate more and more fatal heat, so as not to release it into [00:23:26] nature, it is sent by pipes filled with water 500 [00:23:30] m away and makes the tumble in the largest swimming pool in [00:23:33] France, 70 m of pool and 5000 seats in [00:23:37] the stands, this is the place where we come to exchange this [00:23:40] heat so this fluid which is [00:23:44] which is therefore injected into the [00:23:47] water treatment system. into the air treatment system [00:23:50] to heat the water temperature and the [00:23:54] air temperature, but partly supplying the pool is only one step, [00:23:57] in 4 years, the data center will participate in supplying the entire [00:24:01] district. the metropolis is developing a large [00:24:04] urban district with housing, offices, shops, [00:24:08] public facilities which will all be connected to the heat networks and the [00:24:11] data center will participate in the general energy mix [00:24:15] but with a significant share which will not be dominant of course but which will still [00:24:19] be significant. in the energy mix thanks to this exchange, the data [00:24:23] center will be able to retrocede half of its fatal heat to the [00:24:26] community, residents and swimmers, they will have access to [00:24:30] local energy not listed on the market and therefore [00:24:33] impermeable to the [00:24:34] crisis. [00:24:41] Why do data centers give off so much heat? It's because in fact [00:24:45] the circulation of electricity in the processor, which has millions and [00:24:48] millions and millions of wires in a small surface, well, it inevitably creates [00:24:52] heat, and so we put small radiators on top to evacuate it, because if we [00:24:55] don't evacuate it, the processor dies. My biggest [00:24:59] question is, what do we do with the heat? Can we quickly [00:25:02] reuse it? It all depends on the location of the data [00:25:05] center. We are not always next to an Olympic swimming pool that needs to be [00:25:09] heated, so the data center must be close to [00:25:12] facilities that need this heat and to which it [00:25:16] is relatively easy to send it. One possibility would be to [00:25:20] fractionate the data centers, a myriad of small data centers that would be better [00:25:23] integrated into the urban fabric, but be careful, because if we do [00:25:26] that, we will lose the optimization of the [00:25:30] data center itself. The fact that so much data, so many flows, so much [00:25:33] processing are in the same data center allows us to maximize [00:25:37] the use of servers and so on. Will data centers multiply? [00:25:40] Yes, most likely, in fact it started with what we call the [00:25:44] cloud, so the fact that we use less and less our own computer, in any case our own hard [00:25:48] drive, but that we send files everywhere else, and artificial [00:25:52] intelligence reinforces that because we need computing power that for now we cannot [00:25:55] have locally, so we are forced to go through a data center when we [00:25:59] ask a question to jimmy ning or or chad. or [00:26:03] another, building data centers, is to ensure our digital sovereignty, [00:26:07] currently we are very very dependent on American servers and companies, [00:26:10] now the problem is, [00:26:13] is our territory compatible [00:26:16] with the environmental impact of data centers? If you [00:26:20] are Sweden, you will not have to spend a lot of energy to [00:26:23] cool your data center, but if you are a country in Central [00:26:26] Africa for example, it will cost a lot of energy to dehumidify [00:26:30] and reduce the heat to have a data center there. Before we [00:26:34] leave, some practical tips for a more ecological digital: [00:26:36] limit the number of your devices starting [00:26:40] with televisions, share one or two tablets per [00:26:44] household with each person having their own user account, that's [00:26:47] ideal, rent or co-buy, especially the devices you [00:26:50] rarely use, and then make your equipment last, [00:26:54] especially your mobile phones. This is the end of this [00:26:56] show which would not exist without digital, all our plan B on the [00:27:00] France 24 website, Facebook, X or on my [00:27:04] LinkedIn and Instagram pages, thank you, bye [00:27:07] bye, [00:27:16] make way for the weather with Technal [00:27:18] windows, [00:27:21] the creamy pumpkin, what a sweetness, it's true that we are [00:27:24] with Knorr and the [00:27:27] vegetable garden. [00:30:41] It's 9:30 here in Paris, hello everyone and welcome [00:30:45] to Parlons-en, the headlines this Thursday, public [00:30:47] and private sector employees called to stop work this November [00:30:51] 5th, for salaries and against high cost of living, dear high school students and university students [00:30:55] will join some of the 250 protests planned throughout the country, [00:30:58] national strike day.