Student demo in Athens, clashes. teargas and scuffles

(2 Dec 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of demonstrators charging at riot police near Parliament, hitting police shields with sticks, demonstrators retreating and being chased, AUDIO: of pepper spray being fired
2. Police detaining demonstrator
3. Riot police in gas masks chasing demonstrators, AUDIO: of pepper spray being fired
4. Detained demonstrator being taken away by riot police
5. Riot police in gas masks watching demonstrators march by
6. Wide of parliament and riot police in gas masks on guard
7. Various of demonstrators marching
8. Demonstrators holding banner reading (English) "Solidarity to the struggle of British students!"
9. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Anna Grapsa, demonstrating student:
"We are being murdered in education, in our jobs and in our lives. We are not going to be the generation that will learn to live on 592 euros (per month). We will not be the generation of obedience. We will become the generation that will overturn all of this on the streets."
10. Close-up of protesters' feet while marching
11. Various of demonstrators marching
STORYLINE:
Police clashed with demonstrating students outside Greece's parliament on Thursday in the latest protest against a raft of harsh austerity measures designed to get the country's finances back on track.
Police fired tear gas and clashed with youths during the brief incident after some 1,500 people marched though central Athens.
No arrests or injuries were reported by police.
Greece avoided bankruptcy in May after it received a rescue loan package from EU partners and the International Monetary Fund, set to reach 110 (b) billion euros over the next three years.
In return, the Socialist government imposed a strict austerity plan, that is facing renewed union opposition.
Unions have called a general strike for December 15 (2010), the seventh this year, while student protest groups are staging occupations of university buildings around the country.
Another student rally is planned in Athens on Monday, marking two years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy that sparked major riots in Greek cities.

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