Calm countryside amid strikes in France

The World

Protests continued today in France against the government’s plans to raise the minimum retirement age. But the demonstrations aren’t hitting all areas of the country. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the owners of a bakery in the rural village of L’Isle Sur La Sorgue in southern France, about the mood there.

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