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IrelandLyon's tear gas and Tirana's water cannons fill protest footage
USA TODAY's raw compilation moves through four countries, showing street confrontations alongside marches over education, austerity and political grievances.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 319,216 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (20,397).
Police and protesters clash across Europe over cost of living crisis
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- 0:06Police push crowds back in Turin, with scuffles and face-to-face confrontations.
- 1:55Lyon footage shows tear gas, thrown projectiles and police advances, followed later by a brass-band march.
- 4:55In Tirana, demonstrators throw stones toward water cannon trucks spraying the crowds.
- 10:26Tirana interviewees describe economic hardship and longstanding frustration with Albania's political leadership.
- 12:59Paris crowds march with banners opposing austerity and government policy.
- 14:38Marseille footage moves from a large march to tear gas, dumpster fires and confrontations with police.
A brass band leads marchers through Lyon, but elsewhere in the same city's footage, tear gas spreads across broad avenues and demonstrators face charging police lines. USA TODAY's compilation puts those different scenes of protest beside each other, rather than building its report around a studio explanation.
The video drew about 200,000 views in its first ten hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for regular uploads. A separate upload focused on Paris police using tear gas and water cannons also made an unusually quick start.
Although the main video's title frames the unrest around the cost of living, the footage shows a range of demands. In Paris, banners oppose austerity and call for education funding. In Tirana, interviewees describe economic hardship and frustration with Albania's political leadership. One argues that the problem extends beyond a single political party.
The sequence moves from police pushing crowds back in Turin to water cannons spraying demonstrators in Tirana, then to overturned barricades in Brussels. Later, large marches in Paris and Marseille give way to further confrontations in the Marseille footage.
The Tirana interviews are the compilation's clearest pause to hear protesters explain themselves. Amid the street noise and police lines, they describe a loss of patience with a political system they say has failed them for decades.
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- Channel
- USA TODAY
- Subscribers
- 7,590,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 10,415,497
- Channel views, pace per day
- 844,574 (on a normal day: 1,648,120)
- Video published
- October 24, 2026
- Video views so far
- 200,451 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 319,216
The numbers
The Europe-wide compilation has already passed USA TODAY's usual first-day audience. The separate Paris footage is also drawing views faster than a typical regular upload.
