What does it say this May 1st?

This Wednesday, May 1, 150,000 demonstrators are expected throughout France for the Labor Day parades, South-East Asia is going through an “extremely dangerous” heatwave and the Fiasco series features a loser Pierre Niney.

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Demonstration against pension reform, May 1, 2023, in Marseille.  (CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP)

“Hi it’s Leo, what does it say?”

This Wednesday, May 1, is the 134th Labor Day in France. Up to 150,000 demonstrators are expected, according to a note from the intelligence services that franceinfo was able to consult. In addition to the traditional demands for better working conditions and higher wages, the unions will march for peace in Gaza and Ukraine, as well as for a “more protective” Europe.

Southeast Asia is experiencing an “extremely dangerous” heat wave, with 50 degrees felt particularly in Bangkok, Thailand. Very vulnerable to climate change, this region of the world could reach the threshold of 220 days of “extreme heat” per year if two degrees of warming are exceeded in the coming years.

And then the new series from the director of “Family Business” was released Tuesday on Netflix. In “Fiasco”, Igor Gotesman tells the story of a film shoot that does not go as planned. Pierre Niney plays a very annoying director-looser, but also very funny.

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