Thousands of civil servants have marched through the Greek capital and the second largest city of Thessaloniki as a two-day nationwide strike against planned job cuts shut down all public services. Schools and courts were closed and hospitals were functioning with reduced staff on Wednesday while trains were halted for four hours, and journalists joined in with a three-hour work stoppage, pulling news broadcasts off the air. Al Jazeera's Jogn Psaropoulos reports from Athens.