UNREST IN FRANCE: Tensions flare as student protests rock Paris

BRYAN: F FRANCE IS BRACING FOR. ANOTHER ROUND OF PROTESTS AFTER. WEEKS OF CHAOS. STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ARE. DEMANDING BETTER CLASSROOM. CONDITIONS, AND THOUGH MANY. PROTESTS HAVE BEEN PEACEFUL, OTHERS HAVE CERTAINLY RUTTED IN. VIOLENCE WITH POLICE. --. ERUPTED. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JEFF PAUL. IS IN PARIS. HE'S BEEN ON THE GROUND THTHROUH. ALL OF THIS. JEFF, WHAT'S THE LATEST? >> REPORTER: AFTER SEVERAL DAYS. OF RALLIES AND PROTESTS, SOME.

LEADING TO VIOLENT CLASHES WITH. POLICE, IT'S PRETTY CALM HERE IN. PARIS. BUT THAT IS SET TO CHANGE AS. STUDENT PROTESTERS TELL US THEY. ARE GOING TO KEEP PUSHING FOR. BETTER EDUCATION. THREE WEEKS OF STUDENT-LED. PROTESTS DECRYING A FAILING. SCHOOL SYSTEM WITH NOT AN END IN. SIGH. THOUSANDS ALL ACROSS FRANCE. BLOCKADING SCHOOLS, MARCHING. THROUGH STREETS AND AT TIMES. CLASHING WITH POLICE. DURING A RALLY AT BASTILLE. SQUARE, OFFICERS IN PARIS USING.

WATER CANNONS AND FLASH-BANGS TO. CLEAR THE AREA. MAJOR CLASHES AS POLICE TRYING. TO GET PROTESTERS TO PUSH BACK. THEY'VE GOT SMOKE BOMBS AND TEAR. GAS. THE PROTESTERS THOUGH DON'T WANT. TO LEAVE. THE DEMONSTRATORS SAY VIOLENT. POLICE TACTICS WON'T INTIMIDATE. THEM. >> STUDENTS WANT TO BE HEARD, AND THE BEST WAY IS TO MAKE. NOISE IN THE STREET. >> Reporter: STUDENTS SAY. BUILDINGS ARE CRUMBLING AND. RAT-INFESTED. THERE AREN'T ENOUGH TEACHERS, AND THE SCHOOL DAY IS TOO LONG. THE GOVERNMENT AND PRESIDENT,

EMMANUEL MACRON, PLEDGING TO. SEND 3,000 SPARE TEACHERS. >> TRANSLATOR: THE. RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT. AND OF ALL POLITICAL GROUPS MUST. BE TO RETORE THIS CONFIDENCE. AND THAT OBVIOUSLY ALREADY. BEGINS BY LISTENING TO THEM. >> Reporter: MANY PROTESTERS. SAY THERE'S A LONG WAY TO GO. UNTIL THEY'RE STAY SATISFIED. >> START LISTENING TO US. START HELPING US BECAUSE THE. YOUTH IS ANGRY. >> Reporter: NOW, THE STUDENT. PROTESTERS WHO WE'VE SPOKEN TO. SAY THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE.

ANOTHER RALLY ON TUESDAY, THEN. THEY'RE HOPING THE ORGANIZE ONE. OF THOSE MASSIVE, MAJOR. NANATIONWIDE PROTESTS NE.