Paris Saint-Germain's clash with Lyon in Ligue 1 has been moved from Sunday to Monday evening at the request of Paris police.

The French football league said it had agreed to comply with the police order.

The French and British governments have issued a joint statement confirming that their air forces have for the first time staged a joint exercise simulating a nuclear strike, AFP reports.

UK defence minister Wes Streeting was quoted as saying:

This exercise demonstrates the depth of our partnership, the credibility of our deterrents, and our determination to remain united in the face of emerging threats.

France's statement said that "possessing independent nuclear forces does not preclude coordination."

The exercise consisted of French Rafales taking off from a base in northern France escorted by British RAF Typhoons.

Reuters has a quick snap that passengers are being evacuated from Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow. RIA reports it is due to a drone threat.

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said Friday she was "deeply alarmed" after Russia was blamed for a new drone attack that sank a ship in the Black Sea near Romania.

Posting on social media, AFP report she said:

Deeply alarmed by yet another Russian escalation in the Black Sea. A civilian vessel carrying Ukrainian and Azerbaijani crew has been struck off the coast of Romania. These reckless attacks target innocent lives and openly defy international law.

In Ukraine, Volodymyr ‌Zelenskyy has said that a large-scale swap of prisoners has taken place with Russia.

Ukraine on Friday ⁠brought ⁠home 270 people, ​including nine civilians.

President Emmanuel Macron has commented on a shooting earlier today in the town of Trappes, west of Paris, which has left one person dead and wounded four others, including a 12-year-old girl.

On social media the French president said:

We would like to thank our ​law enforcement agencies, which have ‌already taken the ‌suspect into custody. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has taken ‌over the case.

It's all a bit of a moveable feast at the moment in terms of where and when protests can or cannot be held this weekend.

Initially authorities in cities like Marseille and Lyon had issued blanket bans on any unauthorised demonstrations.

That prompted 1.) a rush by trade unions and student groups to file their protest plans with officials and negotiate march routes and

2.) last-minute legal challenges with plaintiffs arguing their constitutional right to protest is being suppressed by the government.

Trade unionists, lawyers, students, public intellectuals, and rights activists have all come out criticising the curbs on protest. The government says it's trying to prevent a repeat of the looting, fires and violence seen last weekend.

Left-wing politicians also denounced the "headlong authoritarian rush" of the government. Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's party put out this statement this morning:

By deciding to ban demonstrations, to choose who has the right to organize them, to put in place curfews on the scale of a department or a city, to encourage traders to use private security, the executive is crossing one by one the limits that separate a democracy from an authoritarian and police state.

Furthermore, bans on demonstrations are foolish decisions that are likely to generate chaos. Indeed, these bans will not quell anger against the government's policies, nor will they quell the desire to express it in the streets.

Meanwhile co-president of the Association of Criminal Lawyers, Romain Boulet, slammed the thousands of arrests that have occurred this week calling it: "The most repressive week in the history of the Fifth Republic."

Never before in France have there been so many arrests and so many people brought before the courts as this week.

The Justice Minister has just given an updated on sentencings- saying 232 people have been sentenced to prison since Saturday.

Elite units like the GIGN – the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group- and RAID (Research, Assistance, Intervention and Deterrence) are being activated tomorrow in the protests.

These units more commonly specialise in counter-terrorism events, hostage rescue, protecting senior state officials.

Nuñez defended their involvement in policing these street demonstrations of students, workers and civil servants. He noted calls on social media "from the far-left" to target ​public buildings.

"We are not talking about ⁠a peaceful, friendly demonstration," Nunez ​told reporters. "We ​are ​ready tomorrow ​to be ‌extremely firm ​and ​not tolerate anything."

The French interior minister says the government is mobilising 70,000 police officers and gendarmes- military officers who serve in the national police force – to city streets this weekend.

Laurent Nuñez said the government was aiming for an "extremely mobile, agile and effective" force. Some units will be stationed specifically outside government and public buildings as protection.

As I've noted earlier, several museums and tourist sites are closing this weekend – including Paris's major museums the Louvre and Orsay – while shops and businesses are also boarding up.

Nuñez again condemned the vandalism and looting seen on the sidelines of protests last weekend – saying authorities would be "uncompromising" with "the vandals, with the looters and with all those who will commit atrocities".

He also again repeated that some of this had been stoked by groups "on the far-left and radical extreme left" – but didn't provide details.

"What happened on Octobe 17 is totally unacceptable. We will be fully in control to prevent these lootings, these attacks on public buildings" from occurring again, he said.

More than 200 people have already been jailed over last weekend's violence.

French interior minister Laurent Nuñez is speaking now following a meeting of the Defence Council this morning, chaired by President Macron.

He begins by mentioning the shooting this morning in Trappes before going on to defending some of the blanket bans on demonstrations that have been issued in different regions across the country- saying each prefecture has the best idea of the security situation.

For example, until an hour ago, Marseille authorities had banned all demonstrations but the prefecture there has now allowed a trade union march to go ahead tomorrow.

Several local protest bans are also being challenged in last-minute court hearings today.

Nuñez will also be travelling to Orleans tonight to speak with law enforcement there ahead of the National Rally congress and counter-protests expected in the city tomorrow.