Nearly 1,000 arrests were made as hundreds of thousands people took part in another day of protests across France.

After a day of largely peaceful demonstrations, clashes occurred late on Saturday with police firing tear gas and water cannons to disperse protestors in a number of cities including Paris.

The interior ministry said an estimated 410,000 people protested on Saturday, while the unions put the number at about 800,000.

Hundreds of people have been jailed for vandalism, arson and looting after the protests over the cost of living and poor school conditions descended into chaos.

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US President Donald Trump has said Iran will “never have a nuclear weapon” in his preliminary deal to end the war.

Speaking at the G7 summit, Trump also said that without him “there would be no Israel” and criticised Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

Fighting between Hezbollah and Israel has continued, and Iran has said Israeli troops must withdraw from Lebanon.

Netanyahu said his troops will not be withdrawing and the framework deal was reached between Iran and the US, not Israel.

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Barclays is cutting its staff by around 5,000 as it is increasing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI).

The banking group expects to close what amounts to 5% of its global workforce by the end of this year.

The bank’s cost reductions are focused on its UK retail bank, but some back office functions for the UK are done in India, where a significant proportion of the job cuts are expected to fall.

Barclays said the changes were the result of an ongoing modernisation plan, with the use of AI being the “icing on the cake” of its strategy.

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Naomi Klein has been writing critiques of capitalism and globalisation for more than 20 years. But now, for one of the most influential and outspoken figures on the political left, things are getting desperate. In her latest book ‘End Times Fascism’ she writes about how the global economic order is combining with other powerful forces to hasten the end of the world as we know it.

The author and social activist tells Gabriel Gatehouse about the religious fundamentalists, tech bros and white supremacists that keep her up at night, and her ideas about how to stop them – including dismantling capitalism, and why it hasn’t happened yet.

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00:00 Intro
01:06 Naomi Klein: what makes someone a radical?
02:30 Growing up in a radical family
06:06 How Naomi Klein became a journalist
09:36 The alliance between tech billionaires and religious fundamentalists
12:38 Why tech billionaires should be taken seriously
14:02 How the right uses trolling as a political strategy
15:44 Inside the tech billionaires’ vision of escape
19:32 The AI race and the climate crisis
20:55 What does Naomi Klein mean by fascism?
25:15 Why naming fascism matters
27:29 Could apocalyptic beliefs become self-fulfilling?
30:08 How conspiracy theories exploit uncertainty
34:17 Can opposition to AI unite political rivals?
36:36 How to challenge the far right
40:28 Does capitalism need to be transformed?
44:03 Could the AI bubble trigger a financial crisis?
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