ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION
Scuffles broke out between anti-nuclear protesters and German police early on Saturday (November 26) in the northern town of Metzingen.
This is some 30 kilometres away from where a shipment of highly radioactive nuclear waste was expected to arrive at a storage depot later over weekend.
Police used water cannons on a smaller group of protesters which had distanced itself from a nearby "camp" of some 700 to 800 activists, many of whom shouted at police to "go away."
A heavily protected train carrying 150 tonnes of reprocessed nuclear waste was en route to the Gorleben storage site in Germany's Lower Saxony state.
The train left Areva's nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in Normandy, France on Wednesday (November 23) after scuffles there between police and hundreds of protesters who tried to foil the transport by occupying train tracks near the town of Valognes.
The train was the last of 12 shipments of treated German nuclear waste sent in recent years from France to Gorleben.
