Farmers are blocking eight motorways leading to Paris and several hundred are driving their tractors towards the capital's food market.
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00:00 France has told its farmers that any action to block access to Paris' main market for
00:06 fresh food would be crossing a line, as a tractor protest made good on a threat to blockade
00:12 the city for an indefinite period.
00:17 Officers and armoured vehicles stationed at the Rangy's market, as agricultural unions
00:21 prepared to mount a siege on the French capital over an ongoing row over farming regulations,
00:27 pay and taxes.
00:30 Protesting farmers aim to pressure the government over the future of their industry, which has
00:35 been shaken by repercussions of the war in Ukraine.
00:38 "We are also being forced to produce sugarcane, while we are being asked to produce more.
00:46 How can we produce more if we grow it on a smaller surface?"
00:50 "We are being forbidden certain molecules, which are still allowed in Spain or Italy,
00:55 and they are spilling their fruits on France.
00:58 And how do we do it?"
01:00 In Romania, farmers and transport workers have staged a three-day traffic blockade over
01:05 working conditions, starting with demonstrations on the streets of Brasov on Monday.
01:11 As for France's neighbour Belgium, agricultural workers blocked key roads last night, including
01:16 the Brussels highway, causing traffic jams during the morning rush hour.
01:21 (audience laughing)
01:24 (whooshing)