Soaring inflation in the UK and a cost of living nightmare have pushed hundreds of thousands of striking Britons onto the streets.

The British government has introduced legislation that makes it difficult for unions to hold further strikes.

The four-day strike by young British doctors is expected to have a ‘catastrophic impact’ on the National Health Service (NHS) waiting lists, says the chief executive of NHS confederation.

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.

Germany is faced with transport disruptions resulting from a cost of living mega strike. Airports, bus and train stations, across Germany have come to a standstill.

French protesters have blocked a key highway around the capital Paris and ramped up industrial action in protest at the government's contentious pension reform.

France has been hit by yet another wave of mass strikes and protests in response to President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reforms.