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French Government Survives No-confidence Vote

The French government has survived a no-confidence vote after forcing through a controversial labour reform bill.

The French government has survived a no-confidence vote after forcing through a controversial labour reform bill. Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, bureau chief for the Financial Times newspaper in Paris, gives her analysis.

Also on the programme, at an anti-corruption summit in London, a handful of countries agree to publish lists of who really owns companies in their territories. Mike Johnson speaks to Bermuda's finance minister Bob Richards. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Milton Nkosi reports from the World Economic Forum on Africa in Rwanda, and on the day the UK government announces a major overhaul of the way the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ operates, we discuss how public service broadcasters like the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ should be funded in the years ahead.

(image: Protesters march in Marseille, southeastern France, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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Thu 12 May 2016 17:32GMT

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  • Thu 12 May 2016 17:32GMT