Striking workers waving burning flares have blocked train tracks serving one of Paris's main railway stations on a day of nationwide protests against unpopular pension reforms.Dozens of railway workers with flags and flares marched along tracks outside Gare de Lyon.It comes after a French minister warned that violent demonstrators intend "to destroy, to injure and to kill".

Striking workers waving burning flares have blocked train tracks serving one of Paris's main railway stations on a day of nationwide protests against unpopular pension reforms.Dozens of railway workers with flags and flares marched along tracks outside Gare de Lyon.It comes after a French minister warned that violent demonstrators intend "to destroy, to injure and to kill".