TOPSHOTS A protester wearing a gas mask holds a smartphone and gestures during a demonstration by striking employees of the French state rail company SNCF near the Transport Ministry in Paris on June 12, 2014, on the second day of a nation-wide strike to protest a government railway reform project. A national train strike called by trade unions which began on the evening of June 10 in protest against a proposed railway reform aimed at containing the sector's soaring debt, was renewed a second time for another 24 hours on June 12. AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND GUAY