The World This Week: Pentagon leaks, French pension reform, Biden in Ireland

France’s constitutional court on Friday ruled that President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform, which was railroaded through parliament last month, is mostly legal. As France awaited the verdict, demonstrators had gathered both in Paris and in other major cities to express their opposition to the reform.

And Joe Biden is in Ireland. Ten out of the US president’s 16 great-grandparents were Irish, and this Friday he is visiting the town of Ballina, in County Mayo, where one of his third cousins works as a plumber. 

Produced by François Picard, Alessandro Xenos, Meiqi AN, Imen Mellaz.

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