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Speaker 1: UK correspondent Gevin Gray joins us now Hikevin.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Franz Usca.

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Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. I've just been talking about

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Speaker 1: how fascinating elections are around the world at the moment

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Speaker 1: and the French election in the weekend, but riots of

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Speaker 1: erupted in France have a night following the most well,

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Speaker 1: this shocking result.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was pretty shocking because the far

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Speaker 2: right National Rally Party had done so well in the

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Speaker 2: first round, getting one in three of all the boats

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Speaker 2: that were cast, and has then seemingly come third place

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Speaker 2: in the second round. Why well, because there was a

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Speaker 2: loose coalition of centrist and left wing parties that basically

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Speaker 2: got together they don't seem to have any other raison

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Speaker 2: lectra other than blocking the National Rally Party, and succeeded

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Speaker 2: in doing exactly that. So candidates dropped out are from

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Speaker 2: the left and center parties in order just to have

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Speaker 2: one left and center party candidate taking on the National

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Speaker 2: Rally and try and coalesce to gather those supporters around them.

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Speaker 2: And they have succeeded in that, and that led to

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Speaker 2: some pretty violent riots and demonstrations across France last night

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Speaker 2: with left wing protesters taking to the pavements against the

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Speaker 2: expected right wing game, and then of course violence breaking

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Speaker 2: out again when the results came out. Protester's picture throwing

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Speaker 2: smoke flares into the streets, demonstrators in Paris setting bins

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Speaker 2: on fire and vehicles on fire, and also pictures on

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Speaker 2: social media showing the police rushing in towards the flames

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Speaker 2: with protesters throwing projectiles at them and it looks like

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Speaker 2: using tear gas at those demonstrators. And this was after

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Speaker 2: thirty thousand police officers had been on duty during that

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Speaker 2: second runoff vote on Sunday, and that was quite simply

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Speaker 2: because they really did fear some major, major unrest on

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Speaker 2: the streets. The question now for France is what next?

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Speaker 2: Because I've got this loose coalition in place, they didn't

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Speaker 2: have that many policies that they all seem to agree on.

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Speaker 1: How long is it going to take?

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Speaker 2: Kevin Luck, Yeah, I think this could take a month's

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Speaker 2: actually to work its way through. And the bizarre thing

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Speaker 2: about this Francesca is that the president, Emmanuel Macaran, he

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Speaker 2: came into power trying to effectively get more centrist support

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Speaker 2: in France, to do away with the far left, to

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Speaker 2: do away with the far right, and actually the reverse

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Speaker 2: has happened because both those areas have gained support in

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Speaker 2: this particular election.

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Speaker 1: The UK's first female Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has made a

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Speaker 1: promise to kickstart economic growth. She's going to make this

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Speaker 1: a national mission, yes, and.

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Speaker 2: She's probably going to give I would think the most

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Speaker 2: important speech of her life coming up in the next

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Speaker 2: couple of hours, because she's going to be talking to

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Speaker 2: the businesses and leaders at the Treasury and she's got

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Speaker 2: to obviously have to set out Labor the new party

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Speaker 2: of government in the UK Labour's plan for the economy

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Speaker 2: because growth has been sluggish. It's not been good in

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Speaker 2: around the world, but it's been really sluggish in the UK,

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Speaker 2: so how best to get that moving. One of the

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Speaker 2: plans she's going to unveil, we believe, is compulsory house

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Speaker 2: building targets. This has always been a major thorn in

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Speaker 2: the side of leaders because we need so many houses

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Speaker 2: being built and of course nobody wants them being built

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Speaker 2: near them. Plus the fact where a small nation in area,

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Speaker 2: very densely populated and people are very protective of green

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Speaker 2: spaces that are left. So it's going to be interesting

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Speaker 2: which way she twists and turns to try and get

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Speaker 2: rid of this. But experts are saying this is going

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Speaker 2: to be no easy target because there are going to

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Speaker 2: be all sorts of objections put in her way, and

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Speaker 2: one can see this going legal as well.

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Speaker 1: No, we're all dealing with the same same issues. Given

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Speaker 1: I see a major UK supermarket chain has script a

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Speaker 1: four day working week after staff complained that the system

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Speaker 1: leaft them feeling exhausted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Labor Party, the new party's government here in

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Speaker 2: the US, tends to receive much of its backing from

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Speaker 2: the unions, and although Secure Starmer the leader, is really

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Speaker 2: you know, keeping them at arms distance, there are others

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Speaker 2: who are very very keen on seeing more of those

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Speaker 2: union ideas being brought in. Amongst them Britain's largest union, Unison,

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Speaker 2: wants a four day working week, so it really is

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Speaker 2: pushing this now. It says it's been found to work

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Speaker 2: around the world and therefore we should have it in

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Speaker 2: the UK. But one leading supermarket chain here called Asda,

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Speaker 2: has been trialing a four day week and looks like

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Speaker 2: it's going to scrap it. Why well, across twenty stores

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Speaker 2: they did a trial where staff worked forty four hours

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Speaker 2: over four days rather than five, but had to you know,

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Speaker 2: got the same pay. But those eleven hour shifts proved

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Speaker 2: physically demanding and let the staff worn out. And they're

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Speaker 2: saying that they don't want to work the four days,

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Speaker 2: they prefer to work the five. This, of course, is

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Speaker 2: being highlighted in the right wing here as another concern

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Speaker 2: for the incoming labor party. Things they might try and do.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, four day weeks being talked about a lot here,

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Speaker 2: but very few big companies have managed to implement it successfully.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much for the update, Gevin Grady.

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