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Hundreds of Hong Kong medical workers, who are on their fifth day of strike, stage a protest in the offices of the Hospital Authority. They are demanding to meet with senior management and for the city to close its border completely with China as well as for the government to ensure adequate medical supplies to combat the deadly novel coronavirus. IMAGES
Medical workers at the public Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong line corridors and hold pro-democracy placards to show solidarity with the anti-government movement as the city's political crisis continues. IMAGES
Employees of Total and Esso continue their strike in front of the Esso site in Fos-sur-Mer at the call of the CGT union, while almost a third of the petrol stations in France are affected by shortages due to the blockade of refineries. IMAGES
Lugo, Oct 10 (EFE).- Factory workers took to the streets once again Sunday to protest against the decision of the American industrial corporation Alcoa to close down its production plant in Lugo, in the northern Spain.Workers assured that they would not lower their guard and that they would do everything possible to keep this only primary aluminum producing company in Spain. (Camera: ELISEO TRIGO).SHOT LIST: FACTORY WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST CLOSURE OF ALCOA ALUMINUM PLANT IN SAN CIBRAO, LUGO, SPAIN.
Hong Kong, Aug 23 (EFE/EPA).- Hong Kong's Central Market, a Grade III historic building, reopened Monday to the public 18 years after it was closed down, following a 500-million-HK-dollar makeover. (Camera: JEROME FAVRE).B-ROLL OF PEOPLE VISITING THE CENTRAL MARKET IN HONG KONG.
Brussels, Jul 19 (EFE).- After two months of hunger strike, some undocumented immigrants took another step in their protest action Monday and stopped drinking to express their "discontent" with the management of the crisis by the Belgian Government, although their spokesmen did not specify the exact number of protesters. (Camera: LEO RODRÍGUEZ).B-ROLL OF THE STRIKE STAGED BY UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANT WORKERS IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.SOUND BITES: ONE OF THE PROTESTERS. TRANSLATIONS:- We are not the ones who decide, it is the will of some strikers who have seen that the Government does not advance a step towards a resolution proposal to resolve the problem. They are desperate and devastated by their deafness and by the stubbornness of our Government. That's why they decided by their own free will to go on a thirst strike so that things can get going, so that they are heard more and more. To express their discontent, their concern and their despair for our Government.- Yesterday there were 12 hospitalized cases from the morning until 5 in the afternoon. In the ULB, there were four and three in the VUB, including one case of kidney failure as a consequence of the thirst strike.
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