France's Pension Protests: A Fight for More Than Just Retirement.

Protests in France against the government and President Emmanuel Macron are spreading and becoming more violent, with a new day of national protest planned for Tuesday. While the initial trigger was the law raising the retirement age, the anger is morphing into a thousand different battles, including environmentalism. The recent protest in Sainte-Soline was against an artificial mountain that will house a water reservoir, which environmentalists say will steal necessary groundwater. The confrontation between protesters and security forces lasted over an hour, resulting in injuries on both sides and police vans set on fire. The destructive spiral in which the country is caught up keeps growing, with the old wooden door of Bordeaux City Hall set on fire during a demonstration against raising the retirement age.