France braces for violence in new wave of pension protests

Striking workers waving burning flares invaded and blocked train tracks serving one of Paris’ main railway stations in a new day of nationwide protests against unpopular pension reforms. Dozens of railway workers with flags and flares marched along tracks outside Gare de Lyon on Tuesday. Peaceful marches were also getting underway in other cities in the latest day of nationwide marches and strikes against President Emmanuel Macron’s push to raise France’s legal retirement age from 62 to 64.