European countries are experiencing a wave of strikes and protests due to high energy prices, an unprecedented rise in living costs compounded by poor pay and working conditions as well as other government policies.

Teachers in England are set to go on with two further days of walkouts over pay and conditions after rejecting an unfair offer from the British government.

Ahead of the walkout, the teaching unions were asked by the government to call off their strike in return for formal talks. The unions said that was a precondition they wouldn't accept.

Half a million people from across the public sector came out on the streets in England and Wales demanding better pay and working conditions.