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Speaking this morning, the French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said that there are more than 100 blocking points and about 10,000 demonstrators today.

🔴🗣️ "Les agriculteurs ne sont pas des délinquants [...] et il n'est pas question de les évacuer"

Gérald Darmanin rappelle ses "lignes rouges" : ne pas rentrer dans Paris, Rungis ou les aéroports parisiens. #Les4V @GDarmanin #BlocusDeParis pic.twitter.com/G3jXLsJ0dc
— Telematin (@telematin) January 31, 2024

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Here are the latest images from France this morning, as farmers block highways.

A farmer waves to another farmer from behind a window of a tractor as they block a highway south of Paris, on Wednesday. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP

Farmers warm themselves around a bonfire as they block a highway with their tractors south of Paris, on Wednesday. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP

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Speaking this morning, the French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said that there are more than 100 blocking points and about 10,000 demonstrators today.

🔴🗣️ "Les agriculteurs ne sont pas des délinquants [...] et il n'est pas question de les évacuer"

Gérald Darmanin rappelle ses "lignes rouges" : ne pas rentrer dans Paris, Rungis ou les aéroports parisiens. #Les4V @GDarmanin #BlocusDeParis pic.twitter.com/G3jXLsJ0dc
— Telematin (@telematin) January 31, 2024

It’s another day of protests in France, as farmers continue blocking roads.

Marc Fesneau, the agriculture minister, is set to hold talks in Brussels later today.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is expected to discuss concerns related to the agriculture sector with the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels tomorrow.