jackie roland, al jazeera, brussels. >> tackling two problems at once, food waste and poverty. phil lavelle has more. >> you don't see that often. beef down from six pounds to one. the whole lot for a little over $5. special offer, no. standard fare at a new type of supermarket. trying to combat food waste and food poverty. 50 million tons of supermarket food ends up in the bin in the u.k. every year. bypassing checkout to chuckout. the box may be damaged, the store might have just overorderred, social supermarkets like this one, be resword for next to nothing. the promise of cheap food is always going to lure crowds in. but the point behind this place is the doors will remain firmly closed to all but members. first they have to be living in an area classed by the government to be deprived. secondly they need some form of income like government support. effectively a number of classes run by this place on things like debt management, confidence building and how to apply for jobs. on top of that the membership will not last forever, we're talking six months max. after that time,

jackie roland joins me from brussels. it's been a quiet day hasn't it?he protesters have achieved what they set out to achieve. >> it has indeed although you may be able to hear sirens in the background which show you the emergency services are still working today. but by and large the public sector has ground to a halt, which means train stations like brussels central station that you can see behind me has had it's doors shut all day. international trains the service to paris have all been halted as well and the airport also 600 flights had to be cancelled today and thousands of passengers were not able to make their journey. so the unions feel that they did do as they set out to do, namely to bring brussels other parts of the country to a standstill. but the question really is where do we go from here? because their objective is to somehow try to change the government's plan, change its austerity program but it's difficult to see what kind of action they could plan next after this general strike. >> so where do they go from here jackie? what do they do