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Brussels: Farmers protest leaves streets in chaos

www.bbc.com Brussels: Farmers protest leaves streets in chaos

Europe correspondent Nick Beake on the scene as farmers take to the streets in protest.

Brussels: Farmers protest leaves streets in chaos

Footage from the Belgian capital shows smoke bellowing across the city, after farmers set fire to tyres, resulting in police firing water cannons to put out the flames.

Protesting farmers, who drove their tractors into the heart of the city and filled streets with manure, are angry at low food prices, cheap imports and new EU environmental measures.

Barbed wire was also placed outside EU institutions where agriculture ministers were due to gather.

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