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French riot police use tear gas on third day of national student protests

Riot police across France have clashed with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators as student protests spread on third day. Tear gas was used in Paris and Marseille and hundreds arrested.

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00:00...
00:01There is no danger, there is no danger!
00:16It is not a bad thing!
00:18It is not a bad thing!
00:22It is not a bad thing!
00:25It is not a bad thing!
00:26It is not a bad thing!
00:28In fact, it is really to differentiate the teachers from the students.
00:32Because I am not sure about the teachers.
00:37Just to differentiate them.
00:39Because, in any case, I know that we are mobilizing like 99% of the teachers in France
00:45who make a pacific mobilization.
00:47They really want to be taken seriously.
00:49And not just be able to be taken seriously.
01:13I am here in the heart of Paris where, as you can see behind me,
01:16policemen and teaching staff are attempting to clean up a fire
01:20which was started when bins were set alight outside this school in central Paris.
01:25We have seen these kinds of scenes regularly over the past weeks
01:29as part of the student-led school strikes which are going on across the country.
01:35Later today, we are expecting major protests to take place in the capital.
01:39and across the country where trade unions will march alongside students
01:44to demand better conditions and for the list of requirements
01:49that they set out to the government to be met.

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