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For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me Thousands of striking miners take to the streets of Madrid to protest against austerity cuts to the coal sector. But the march turns violent as clashes break out between protesters and police. Miners clashed with police in Madrid on Thursday. It happened at the end of a march by thousands of demonstrators protesting against cuts to state subsidies for the coal sector. [Carlos Verdiell, Protester]: "The cuts will paralyze business in all of Spain. This means the closure of the mining sector. We are talking about some seven or eight thousand direct jobs. If we add the indirect jobs, we are talking about 30000 people joining the strike." Police fired rubber bullets and protesting miners threw firecrackers. Many of the protesters said people would be driven out of mining communities. [Adrian Marmeleiro, Protestor]: "If we don't get what is being asked for, we will all end up on the street. If we all end up on the street, there will be no one left (living) in mining communities. Because everyone will leave to look for work elsewhere. It will be a disaster for the region." Spain's two largest unions said 10000 miners mainly from northern Spain travelled by bus to Madrid to protest against cuts to grants which are the life-blood of some small mining communities. Spanish coal communities receive aid nationally and from the EU in order to compete with expensive coal from <b>...</b>