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Oil Strikes Close Hundreds of French Petrol Stations

Truckers are blockading French refineries in protest at a new labour law.

Truckers are blockading French refineries in protest at a new labour law. Catherine Guilyardi is a Paris-based journalist who tells us pressure is ratcheting up on the government. Also in the programme, activist shareholders have failed in their bid to throw out a $6m salary for oil giant Shell's chief executive. We report from the company's annual general meeting in the Hague. There's a warning that some perfume and luxury furniture purchases could be funding illegally sourced plant extracts and wood from endangered trees. Ted Leggett wrote a new report on wildlife crime for the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, and fills us in. And the ±«Óãtv's Edwin Lane reports from Vancouver on why the city has become the least affordable in North America.

(Picture: A closed petrol station. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Tue 24 May 2016 22:32GMT

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