Thousands of workers strike in Greece over high cost of living and pensions

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Protesters say the government has refused to implement policies that will make people's lives better, with unions criticising Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' centre-right government for failing to tackle inflation and high housing prices.

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00:00Thousands of workers in Greece have taken to the streets in protest as part of a 24-hour

00:06general strike called by labor unions to protest the rising cost of living.

00:11The strike action, backed by both public and private sector workers on Wednesday, disrupted

00:16economic activities in the capital, Athens, as well as the northern city of Thessaloniki.

00:30The strike action, backed by both public and private sector workers on Wednesday, disrupted

00:37economic activities in the capital, Athens, as well as the northern city of Thessaloniki.

00:42The strike action, backed by both public and private sector workers on Wednesday, disrupted

00:47economic activities in the capital, Athens, as well as the northern city of Thessaloniki.

00:52The strike action, backed by both public and private sector workers on Wednesday, disrupted

00:57economic activities in the capital, Athens, as well as the northern city of Thessaloniki.

01:02Greece's financial crisis saw a quarter of the country's economy wiped out after decades

01:07of profligate spending.

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