00:00Nas ruas de Paris, os protestos inicialmente pacíficos terminaram em alguma violência.
00:05Um retrato menos bom do dia de manifestações realizadas em várias cidades francesas.
00:11Milhares de pessoas juntaram-se aos protestos contra a austeridade,
00:15respondendo aos apelos dos sindicatos que convocaram uma greve nacional
00:18para pressionar o novo primeiro-ministro a repensar o pacote previsto de cortes orçamentais.
00:30Leu Corneu rapidamente recuou numa das propostas mais polémicas que previa a eliminação de dois feriados públicos.
00:53Uma ação ainda insuficiente com os sindicatos a levantarem preocupações sobre outros elementos do plano.
01:00como o congelamento das despesas com a segurança social.
01:03France is witnessing one of its largest protest movements in years
01:08as hundreds of thousands of protestors took to the streets of the country
01:13against the government's announced austerity measures.
01:18Across the country, strikes and protests disrupted transport, schools and even hospitals.
01:24By the end of the day, the mood had shifted here in Paris.
01:29What began as a largely peaceful protest ended with quite a few intense clashes.
01:36A few dozen individuals dressed in black hurled projectiles at police,
01:42some of them even striking other demonstrators and journalists.
01:46Police responded with several charges and heavy use of tear gas and stun grenades to try to disperse the crowd.
01:54The Interior Ministry said that about half a million people demonstrated nationwide,
02:02a figure far lower than the more than one million protestors announced by France's trade unions.
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