00:00Here at the Porte de Montreuil in eastern Paris, one of the major axes that leads into the center of the French capital.
00:10The atmosphere has been tense since the early morning.
00:15Demonstrators lit rubbish, bins on fire, and also tried to barricade roads such as these with different obstacles.
00:30But police who are deployed in large numbers have been dismantling obstacles as soon as they appear and chasing the protesters away.
00:45Elsewhere in the capital, the demonstrators burst onto the Paris Ring Road, the busiest highway in Europe, attempting to block traffic.
00:54But once again, police intervened quite quickly to chase them away.
01:01Today's mobilization is known as Block Everything, and it's part of a nationwide day of protests and strikes.
01:09The goal is to disrupt transport, schools, and daily life in general across France to try to increase pressure on the government.
01:19Just two days after Prime Minister François Bayrou's government collapsed due to his unpopular and austere budget plan.
01:30C'est de la provoque pure, c'est du foutage de gueule, si je me permets, c'est tout à fait contre notre volonté.
01:38On ne veut pas un gouvernement de droite, on ne veut pas Sébastien Lecornu, on ne veut pas Bayrou, on ne veut pas Barnier.
01:44Pourquoi toujours prendre ces décisions qui sont contre nous ?
01:47Et il le sait, il déstabilise le gouvernement totalement, et même sur une échelle internationale, il déstabilise le pouvoir du gouvernement en France, parce que tout le monde est divisé.
01:56Et while police presence has so far limited the impact here in Paris, well, more demonstrations and actions are planned throughout the day, not only in Paris, but across the whole country.
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