France protests have erupted again - big cities like Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille, brought to a standstill as police and demonstrators clash.
France has become the epicentre for protests engulfing Europe about the cost of living, and opportunities for a generation of young people who feel like their futures have been abandoned, and, for the right to protest itself.
There's no sign of the widespread looting that marred French streets a week ago, but there have been clashes with police in cities across the country, which appear to be escalating as protestors build barricades, set fires and throw stones at the police, in Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux.
And far left demonstrations have taken place at the conference of the far right National Rally just south of Paris. We report from the capital where the government announced a "ring of steel" to try and limit the risk of violence.
Police have stepped up security to prevent a repeat of last weekend's riots using tear gas and blockades in areas where people are gathering.
The protests include students, angry over the lack of spending on schools and others - including members of the gilet jaunes - protesting over rising living costs and overstretched public services.
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Again, as feared, riots broke out in Paris this afternoon
defying the rain, groups in face coverings
threw projectiles and fireworks at police
who responded with tear gas and water cannons.
A day after what President Macron described as a racist terror attack
claimed the life of a young man
and a week after violent looting
this was a capital on watch.
Police helicopters circled above
as below tens of thousands gathered again
to protest against France's ailing school system
and the rising cost of living.
Across the country, more than 70,000 officers were deployed,
alongside drones, water cannon and armoured vehicles.
Authorities were caught off guard last week
and they aren't taking any chances today.
All protests across Paris are banned,
apart from this one, led by the unions.
But even so, the route was changed by police very late last night.
Where it was supposed to start,
there were only searches, dispersal warnings
and frustration.
What they're trying to do here is to push the protests
as far away from the city centre as possible
so people don't see them and the government can ignore them.
I am not a terrorist.
I am just...
How old are you?
I am 16.
So that means less riot police, more tenderness.
Exactly.
Demonstrations against a lack of teachers
have morphed into a multi-generational howl of rage
against Macron in the dusk of his presidency.
It was not like that 10 years ago.
From 10 years of Macron, France is like that, really.
And are you scared of Marine Le Pen?
My gosh, yeah.
With an election just six months away,
likely to pitch the far left against
the far right in the final run-off round,
France has hit boiling point,
with politicians accusing each other of fanning the flames.
West of Paris yesterday, a 26-year-old man,
Pengo Bossio Wangi, was killed
and a 12-year-old girl remains in a critical condition
after what authorities suspect was an Islamophobic attack.
These individuals were targeted because of the colour of their skin
or their perceived religion and for no other reason.
That's what happened today.
Le Monde newspaper reports that the suspect told police
he wanted to attack black people and Arabs
and to take revenge for shopkeepers
whose stores were attacked last weekend.
It was, Macron said, a turning point.
He spoke of tensions stirred up and imported.
In Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Bordeaux, tear gas was deployed.
Although outside the far-right National Rally's convention
in Orléans today, protests were loud but calm
as Marine Le Pen geared up to formally launch
her presidential campaign.
Well, we're in Port-au-Vincennes,
which is where all of this is supposed to end peacefully,
but it hasn't turned out as the government would have wanted it to.
About 100 metres up the road,
police had sort of gathered around about 100 protesters,
some of them throwing fireworks.
The police were responding with tear gas,
and actually you can really still smell it in the air.
We've also seen water cannon.
We've been hearing stun grenades,
which had been banned, but now they appear to be back.
And as you can see, the police presence is huge.
They're marching down here.
You've got a lot of vans over there.
That's another water cannon.
And what they're going to start doing is moving protesters away.
And that, we know, is when things can really get difficult.
So as I say, these are not the scenes
that the government would have wanted to see tonight.
