French strikes enter second week

Youths walk away from a damaged phone booth during clashes with police in Nanterre, outside Paris, on the sidelines of the strikes again the pension reform Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images

Strikers block fuel storage depots in Caen. The two main Normandy depots, run by the Combustibles de Normandie company in Caen and by Total in Ouistreham, have been blocked by several dozen opponents to pension reforms Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images

Students block the street in front of the Lycée Turgot school in Paris to protest against pension reform. French riot police fired teargas at youths who set a car on fire, smashed bus stops and threw stones outside a school in a Paris suburb blocked by students Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images

Tankers and other ships wait offshore near Marseille's port in Martigues, where two oil terminals are blocked by strike action Photograph: Anne-christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

A motorcyclist rides past a pile of refuse during a strike by rubbish collectors in Marseille Photograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters

A placard reads 'No more fuel' at a petrol station in Vertou, near Nantes Photograph: Stephane Mahe/Reuters

Police guard a burning van after rioting during a student demonstration in front of the Joliot-Curie high school in Nanterre Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

A striker reads a book during a blockade of fuel storage depots in Caen Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images

Drivers queue to buy petrol in Wattignies, northern France Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images

A plane takes off from Charles de Gaulle airport close to fuel depots in the village of Chennevieres-les-Louvres, north of Paris Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images

Workers from Freescale, Thales and Continental, the manufacturers of microcontrollers, microprocessors and semiconductors, block the road in Toulouse Photograph: Remy Gabalda/AFP/Getty Images

An empty petrol pump in Wattignies. Around 1,500 petrol stations at French supermarkets ran out of fuel today due to the strikes Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images

Riot police stand near a damaged car after rioting during a student demonstration in Lyon Photograph: Robert Pratta/Reuters

A striker holds a CGT union flag as strikers block fuel storage depots in Frontignan, southern France Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images

Strikers block fuel storage depots in Caen Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images

'No diesel' banners at a petrol station in Lyon, southern France Photograph: Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images