Students in France have joined the mass protests against government plans to increase the state retirement age.
High school students have swelled the ranks of protesters, claiming moves to raise the pension age will mean fewer jobs for young people.
Oil refineries and fuel depots have hard-hit by the strikes and there have been major disruptions to the country's supplies, especially at airports.
Fuel supplies to Paris and France’s main international airports are now suffering fuel shortages.
On Friday, Trapil, a company that operates a petrol pipeline to Paris’ airports announced that they’d had to shut it down due to strikes.
The pipeline is supplied by a refinery in Seine-et-Marne, which has been crippled by strikes.
Resistance grows to the government’s plan for pension reform with numbers of young people now out of work in France.
Unions have said they will turn the heat up on the government if it refuses to budge.
The unions have claimed up to three million people took part in this weekend's protests.
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