(28 Jun 2011) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Riot police behind barricades, rioters hitting them with sticks and throwing objects, police responding with tear gas
2. Wide of youths throwing stones, pan to police in distance
3. Riot police standing in line
4. Street scene, rioters running as tear gas fired
5. Wide of police line and rioters, tear gas smoke rising, laser pointers visible through smoke
6. Mid of police
7. Police walking and then retracing their steps
8. Wide of parliament, protesters with banners in front of building
9. Close of banners
10. Wide of parliament with protest
11. Wide of demonstrators, pan to riot police, than back as stand off goes on
12. Wide of policemen walking near entrance to Parliament, being disturbed by laser light directed at them
13. Mid of banner
14. Pan from protesters to Parliament
STORYLINE
Unrest continued into the night outside parliament in the Greek capital Athens on Tuesday, as a demonstration earlier in the day against the latest round of austerity measures turned violent.
The demonstration marks the first day of a general strike which disrupted services across Greece.
Demonstrators were protesting against more taxes and spending cuts which the country has to enact if it is to receive critical bailout funds that will prevent a potentially disastrous default.
A peaceful protest by about 20,000 people quickly degenerated into violence, and riot police fired volleys of tear gas and stun grenades to keep back hooded youths who were pelting them with chunks of ripped up paving stones and marble chipped from building facades and steps.
Several thousand people gathered in Athens' Syntagma Square in the evening.
Hooded youth were seen hitting police with wooden sticks, throwing stones at police lines and pointing laser beams at them.
The officers responded with charges and salvos of teargas.
Police said 37 policemen were injured during Tuesday's riots, while 14 protesters were arrested.
Emergency services said nine protesters were injured.
Inside Parliament, lawmakers were debating the new austerity measures which must be passed this week if Greece's international creditors are to release the next 12 (b) billion euro batch of the country's 110 (b) billion euro bailout, and prevent a default that could drag down European banks and shake the European and world economy.
But the measures, which include spending cuts and tax rises on even those on minimum wages, have caused widespread outrage.
Unions embarked on a two-day general strike on Tuesday, halting nearly all public transport, forcing airlines to reschedule or cancel dozens of flights and bringing public services to a standstill.
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