- In France yellow ves protest entered fourth week against increase of fuel tax turned violent.
- On the fourth weekend about 5,000 demonstrators gathered in the Paris city centre and at least 211 people have been arrested. Some 8,000 officers and 12 armoured vehicles have been deployed in Paris alone and nearly 90,000 in the country as a whole.
- The yellow vest movement opposed fuel tax rises but Government sources say it has been hijacked by ultra-violent protesters.
- In the first week of December hundreds of people were arrested and scores injured in violence in Paris, some of the worst street clashes in the French capital for decades.
- Meanwhile, the French government has said, it is scrapping the unpopular fuel tax increases in its budget and has frozen electricity and gas prices for 2019.
