
Romania Leaders Under Growing Pressure Amid Protests
Thousands in Romania protest a government decree decriminalising some forms of corruption.
Thousands of people are gathering in the squares of Bucharest and other Romanian cities for another night of protest against a governmental decree that will decriminalise some forms of corruption. They have been the biggest protests since the fall of communism in Nineteen Eighty Nine.
Also in the programme, pressure is growing on presidential hopeful Francois Fillon to pull out of the race, and have scientists in the US found the key to proving the existence of dark matter?
(Photo: protestors in front of the government headquarters in Bucharest against the controversial decree to pardon corrupt politicians and decriminalise other offences. Credit: Getty)
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