Rush just said riots are happening in 150 cities across FRance. .. wow.
150??
WOW!
CNN reports over 1 MILLION are protesting across France.
PARIS (Reuters) - More than 2.5 million people demonstrated across France on Tuesday to demand the withdrawal of a youth job contract imposed by the government, the Force Ouvriere trades union said.
"We should reach three million as on the 28th of March," a spokesman for the union said. Some 700,000 people demonstrated in the capital Paris, he said, the same figure given by the main CGT union.
Official police figures put the turnout at the March 28 demonstrations at just over one million.
Tuesday's protests were being closely watched for signs they had peaked in the wake of concessions offered by President Jacques Chirac and the ruling conservatives in the past week.
The focus of the protests, the First Job Contract (CPE), gives firms the right to summarily lay off the under-26s any time during a two-year period.
The government says it will encourage firms to hire staff and so reduce high youth unemployment, but unions and students say it undermines job security.
If that's true, we have left the day when television provided a more accurate picture of reality.