3 prominent saudi scholars are to be executed after the end of ramadan according to media reports. carney and mahdi were arrested in september of 2017 on what the saudis described as terror charges all 3 have a big following online protesters in the indonesian capital jakarta have thrown fireworks at the police as they rallied against the results of the presidential elections riot police fired tear gas and water cannon as the standoff continued into the night the incumbent joko widodo was declared the winner of the poll in april the opposition presidential candidate says he will challenge the results in the courts the united nations says most of the people who fled venezuela are in need of refugee protection and surging governments not to deport them 3000000 people have left the country since 2015 a power struggle is continuing between nicolas maduro the president and the opposition leader. those are your headlines up next it's earthrise and back at the

top of the hour i'll see that. millions of dollars of being stolen in a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe one i want to use gains exclusive access to this cutthroat on the world through a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera. climate change is an existential threat to life on. the world health organization predicts that in 30 years it will be directly responsible for the deaths of over $250000.00 people each year. many feel governments a failing to respond and it's unlikely that the paris agreement targets of keeping the global

temperature rise below 2 degrees centigrade will be met. but to time it pressure groups believe change is possible to seeking to push urgent environmental action to the top of the political agenda. and these movements gathering momentum. i mean are all tore and you ask workers are dying activists pushing for a radical shift in government policy in order to avert a climate crisis and i know from the carbon in the u.k. and i've come to learn c about movement known as extinction with eliot these members believe that the only route to environmental change is for a people's rights. fearful for the planet their own heritage young people around the world are standing up and demanding a better future in the us a growing and passionate group of youth is campaigning for urgent environmental action and the forcing the adults to west. what

hockey. even how. much. this is to summarize movement. in a speech just 2 years this group of activists most of whom are under 30 has grown 210-0000 members. but. not with. their strategy is clear to hot climate change by working within the system and lobbying politicians into pushing through legislative and economic before. i've come to boston to find out how the sunrise movement has become a force to be reckoned with in u.s. politics. leading the charge is 26 year old partially percussion. while studying in massachusetts she joined the university's fossil fuel divestment campaign before co-founding sunrise in 2015. so you've been at the sunrise movement

from the very beginning what made you started a number of us young people all under the age of 30 were saying that the hurricanes were getting bigger the fire seasons were getting longer and the floods were getting bigger but there wasn't a movement big enough for young people to win sure that we had a habitable planet for our future generations q talk more about why you feel you need to actually write now so scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 years to make unprecedented changes to transform every part of our economy and our society today carbonized to get off fossil fuels to invest in or an old bowls and to protect life and human civilization on this planet as we know it and yet our politicians have not done what's necessary they have not built and garnered the political will that we need and people are dying as a result. of the heart of this and our strategy is the green new deal. a radical

environmental change policy the idea for which this can. in the u.s. in the 1960 s. . the deal's goal is to completely transform the u.s. economy by ending its dependency on fossil fuels investing instead in renewable energy and creating jobs in the process. the green new deal is massive economic mobilization at a scale that we have not seen in this country since world war 2 that is an effort to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs. i'm curious to find out whether real political change is possible with people power alone particularly by those so young. i've come to the sunrise boston. there are 204 hubs like this spread across the nation. here every month 60 sunrise members gather to share experiences get behind the cause. welcome your 2nd husband

. i mean i guess it's the way. they're. every thing. that. i get that was. the hubs give people of all backgrounds and opportunities to come together and voice their concerns every single person who decided to come to the scene as a part of this movement as a part of this greater moment in history these are young people need to be heard it's precisely with us and we're teaching by rote. and they want to take positive steps to fix the world we live in going to let the folks who actually understand. the hopes listen to breakout groups where they plan their next actions what do we think what

actually may. high schoolers and listen we just both like their green background with the words like bring new deal and put a link in our body or something i don't interact so feel free to ignore me dear friends in high school care about climate change because of people i know know that climate change is an issue that that's not a debate in the debate is how willing they are to get in i think a lot of young people don't feel like they have the power at all to make any change if we actually come together to totally can change so many things i thought i was coming into believing and it's really a lot more than that there is energy. during gauge so you feel the sense of urgency it's not just 6 days reality for them this is are you sure you can feel that there are. so for all the passion how effective a sunrise actually been. marshallese invited me to her to show the

impacts on rice's had in the top tiers of power. so this was from our 1st action at nancy pelosi office in washington d.c. and as you can see there's literally hundreds of young people lining up the halls and they're carrying signs that say what is your plan our ultimate goal was to share our vision of what the green new deal is all about looking at this or seems to be a sort of plan of action right there's a there's a style that sunrise is using to achieve your goals we're really trying to embody the fact that we are young people fighting for our future and we wanted to be joyous and we wanted to be raucous and we wanted to be serious and we wanted to be determined and resolved. say that older generations chronic inactivity on environmental issues is inexcusable. the united states will. all implementation.

the non-binding paris accord the current republican government refuses to even acknowledge there is a problem so sunrise believe they must act to make change happen that is the lie that can stop here right now and they are being heard the green generation risen a growing number of democrat senators now support the green new deal and sunrise have found influential political allies in socially conscious representatives like alexandria ocasio cortez this is right before representative of causing cortez unprecedentedly joined us on her 1st day of orientation as the new congresswoman to say that we have nancy pelosi in the democratic party's back in pushing for the most progressive and ambitious energy agenda this country has ever seen this about you know this stuff here and this stuff back here for you me that. if you know that

yet. but firm opposition to the green new deal remains on the 26th of march 2019 a draft of the deal was unanimously rejected by the republican controlled senate how did you feel when the resolution got voted out of the senate the goal of the resolution is for it to be a statement of values to chart a blueprint to lay out the projects of what would be included within the great new deal we need an attitude shift we need to put into gear and into momentum these big ideas so that we can write the policy over the next year and get these things to pass. the sunrise aimed to create momentum for their cause by directly lobbying political leaders to do it very do. sean and his team plan to doorstep andrea campbell the president of boston city council. we're told today is going to decide

to go fossil fuel but he got it later down the road. we'll work with her several other cultures to craft a resolution for a green new deal that's going to pass the city council. next week it's got. the 1st step for the group is to encourage politicians to sign a pledge promising that they will refuse money from possible companies who want them to act in their interests. over $1400.00 politicians have signed so far. as we approach the council president's office i'm struck by this group's confidence they walk straight in. just to meet you and your nationality nice to meet you we're here to ask you if you could sign the no fossil fuel money pledge absolutely i mean i will say before even you know sign this thank you for your advocacy. work this stuff doesn't happen by accident if people aren't showing up so happy simply just to pay happy to do this i just want to say thank you. so it's not just

a movement where there and confronting a lot of hostility they're actually getting support and encouragement and warmth really from politicians and. i think we lead by example and i know i do and so by saying let's do this signing on committing we hope that others will follow our lead it's impressive to see these young people having genuine success in the halls of power having meetings like this is really refreshing because it shows that we do have allies out there that we can be working within the system to talk about change that we want to see in the world and it job if you look at. the sunrise movement is clearly influential and it's getting results where it matters most. their ultimate goal is to convince the majority of congressmen and women to sponsor the green new deal. so when the next government is elected in 2020 the bill has the weight of support to make it policy this summer is movement is asking for

a lot and they're asking for it quickly critics say they're too idealistic for. the problem as massive as climate change if we do need ambitious radical solutions now . was today's environmentalists cite risings of the past as proof that incredible social change really is possible. in 1000 i strained britain the suffragettes campaign for women to have the right to vote with a rallying cry of deeds not words they often resort to extreme acts. at some racecourse family davidson even gave her life for the course. these tactics worked in 1020 eight's women won equal voting rights in britain 35 years later in america the civil rights movement to end racial segregation martin luther king led the peaceful protests no problem. better weapon available over new

growing to the freedom and human dignity. by 968 after a decade of campaigning african-american secured legal rights to equal employment voting and housing. by analyzing possible resistance movements political scientist . identified a threshold for success if 3 and a half percent of the population mobilize against the establishment social change will happen. forced many of us need to look 1st to change the way we treat all there is one group which is taking things to the next level. in october 28th the group of activists angered by political inaction on climate change declared themselves to be an open defiance of the take of them and they call themselves extinction rebellion

x. off the shore there in the right now. well i really think management take up like they work outside the system engaging in bold nonviolent acts of civil disobedience it's best to create headline grabbing protests designed to maximize public exposure they believe this will gain them a mass following and force real change in just 6 months they have already expanded into 15 countries spread across 4 continents. i'm at the london headquarters on the day of one of their most extreme actions yet . in a protest day a cooling of all children exoplanet still 500 liters of fake blood on downing street the office and the president of the british prime minister. i don't live in history nice me one of exiles co-founders claire farrow. went to the idea of the

lot of our children we've already suffering a genocide because of. the impacts of pollution so which.