Protests in Finland over austerity

Ports have been closed, transport systems hit and the postal service interrupted as 30,000 people took to the streets of Helsinki protesting against austerity in Finland. The country was an enthusiastic supporter of harsh cuts and reforms for Greece, but the same medicine is now a bitter pill to swallow for the Finns, in a nation that has been in recession for the last three years. Tuomas Niskakangas,a journalist at the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat tells the BBC's Lucy Burton about the government's austerity plans.