Riot police clash with students in France protests

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The French government says the number of people arrested during a week of student protests has passed five thousand. Most of those detained are teenagers. There were violent scenes outside schools across France on Friday as students clashed with riot police. Also in the programme: Spain's parliament has rejected a series of measures aimed at tackling the country's housing crisis; and we hear from the Indian singer-songwriter Anuv Jain who is on his first world tour. Joining Julian Worricker on the panel are Jemima Kelly, columnist for the Financial Times newspaper, and Fuad Musallam, lecturer in anthropology at University College London. (Picture: French firefighters extinguish burning road materials set up as barricades by protesters amid clashes during a protest by high school students near the Lycee Berthelot high school in Aubervilliers near Paris. Credit: REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier)