extreme actions. in a protest day a cooling of all children exoplanets still 500 liters of fake blood on downing street the office on the president of the british prime minister. had i been his very nice me one of exxon's co-founders claire farrow. went to the idea of the plot of our children. we've already suffering a genocide because of. the impacts of pollution so we're trying with this action to get people to understand that it's that it kills people and that it kills people now it's already killing people it's not like something ahead in the future. and. that's why the whole thing. as we make our way to downing street i want to know why they're compelled to confront the political establishment in such drastic way. we think it's simple and direct it's a couple months because it's only i think

a state led internationally that's going to make a meaningful change to the situation when so we're trying to represent the kind of visceral reality of death and suffering which climate change has already started to cause around the world in which it will close in the future and the precession is designed to feel like a funeral march it comes to a stop and the crowd full silent. this is the part of the morning children of your children and our young people here today. making a profound statement just a stone's throw from the prime minister's office to. lose when you take.

actually don't have much time left. please don't let this be the other thing. i'm struck by the rule emotion on display what is the political change the extinction rebellion want to see. what do you want to achieve by all of this we do have 3 main demands the 1st one is set for the government to tell the truth tell to communicate the crisis to the public the 2nd demand is to reduce carbon emissions to net 0 by 25 and then the 3rd demand which i think is the main prize is to achieve structural political change in the form of a citizens' assembly ordinary people who are educated on the facts and then come together to talk about what might be the best route forward do you think it's achievable. i think it's necessary. acts are want to become impossible to ignore so its members are planning the biggest protest yet they hope to bring london to a standstill with

a 2 week human blockade of the city's streets at. one of the chief coordinators of the shutdown maxie what we're doing with the rebellion is having a cause in the level of disruption that could bring about you know the government to meet our demands do you think that you are risk of almost alienating yourself by crossing over into a legal category like there's a common crisis there's an ecological crisis we're here to stop this it's existential threat we face we don't boil and maintaining respect but putting ourselves on the lines we're still risking our liberty the plan is to block the streets of the u.k.'s capital with people chain knock and even glue themselves to structures and to one another these actions are deliberately planned to create maximum disruption and cause arrests just in stein trains members on how to deal with a plea. in a nonviolent way can we have

a activist who is willing to be arrested and carried off that this will. be willing to go that we're not an easy members are trained to go limp as soon as they're touched right what's a big day we're going to we're going to arrest. so we take as many as 5 police officers to remove a single activist by maximizing the number of a rights exile believe they can create publicist and a groundswell of support. for extinction balanced the only way forward this is the only way they believe things are going to preserve civil disobedience in these kinds of actions. 15th of april 2019 and it's the morning of the london shutdown the organizers are expecting thousands of protesters they plan to block london to main streets and

bridges for 2 weeks bringing the city to a grinding halt by meeting claire as she prepares for what could be the biggest demonstration in x. hours history. thank you. a feeling hopeful i'm feeling hopeful that we're going to have more input and more people are going to understand the message and the seriousness of it the reason why we have to do this is because it is this bad we do feel this afraid of our future don't know what else to. extinction rebellions target is the government but the people who will be hit hardest today are the everyday commuters as they try to get to work. there's potential then that all of this could be disrupted people might not be able to get to where they're going to be actions that take a know how is that just i read a story we don't know what they do this but we also don't want to. household.

unliveable pilots the next generation. we're either to oxford circus at 8 30 am and only a handful of activists are here or. we quickly get a taste of web publishing favor might like. look. i'm not quite sure how the group succeed in blocking the very heart of london was the plot here because at the moment the road isn't occupy it there's nothing on it so what's going to happen in groups of people are going to close their eyes and then something should be arriving in the way of living out of the blue reinforcements right. that's something i didn't expect. so this isn't about you village people at home but it's just in the middle of the.

hundreds of activists crowded around the boat on the london shutdown has become. in a matter of hours 10000 supporters descend upon 5 sites across the capital oxford circus parliament square marble arch piccadilly circus and washington bridge manned by not just his team. they have blocks to entire structure framed with trees a music stage counts and a human being on place and it's the. feeling that i've managed to find not just for stocks of snakes and peace activists right now though and you know i'm just watching them go boy yeah. what's been happening or we're just going to monitor in the place as numbers of increase slightly in the some point they're going to be under pressure to clear the bridge i mean what we've got to try to do is get numbers to build the question is how much disruption will that go. going to force

us to create until they do the right thing and meet the demands and stop trying to keep the sites i know willing to lose their liberty for it and get arrested if people are willing to sacrifice to live it say it sends a message to the public to the media and to the good of the politicians that this is a serious issue house were demonstrations are escalating as protesters target the knowledge is toil and gas company. shall not just run down to a site western rebels have superglued themselves and look themselves up outside shell age where they expect thank god. i'm an indian efforts and one of the lead demonstrators here tell me a little bit about why you have showers knowing about the problems of climate change for over 30 years hyundai on one of the biggest emitters of coffee with them while they still like these acts of criminal damage of the catalyst for the piece to make the 1st arrests. they need to halt shell accountable for the atrocity you see humankind and whatnot she. would just seem to

extinction rebellion revellers been taken away by kate's my nose weeks ago betty and i getting exactly what they're up to. 8 hours after the shutdown began please take action. citing section 14 of the public order act which forbids obstruction of the highway. more than 1000 arrests and $30000.00 new recruits later with growing support across $33.00 countries the u.k. government finally agrees to meet tax on. home 1st of may 29000 the house of commons makes history becoming the 1st national parliament in the world to combat climate ecological emergency. climate change activism stretches back 50 years. april 22nd 1970.

s. day. $20000000.00 americans took to the streets on the modern environmental movement was born in the eighty's greenpeace took matters into their own times heading to the seas to battle the commercial dumping of toxic waste nuclear testing and whale hunting today the movement has a new figureheads gretta to the owner generations have tackled the biggest crisis yes it's a. school strike she inspired 1400000 students and 112 countries to join her in the global. the message has been clear for 50 years but today the voice is a louder and more insistent and. i cry change must happen now.

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the acting u.s. defense secretary tones down the rhetoric over tensions with iran. hello and welcome i'm peter watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up there has already been too much death and destruction. a grim warning from the united nations that libya could be descending into a prolonged civil war. clashes in jakarta over the results of indonesia's controversial presidential election. and a postcard perfect picture rising sea levels could drown it all out sooner than we think. our top story the acting u.s. defense secretary says there will be no war with iran and the recent deployment of

additional forces in the gulf has deterred possible attacks by tehran patrick shanahan made those comments following a classified briefing to members of the house of representatives mike hanna reports . congress has been demanding more information for weeks and finally it was provided by the members of the trumpet ministration secretary of state mike pump aoe in the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan held separate reefing sessions from both the house and the senate. patrick shanahan arguing that the recent deployment to carry a strike force to the region has played a role in controlling the crisis we have to turn attacks based on our repository of assets to turn attacks against american forces. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent iranian miscalculation. that we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war. or not

about going to war we're ready to respond if we have to the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalating nobody is talking about a military solution to the current friction with the iranians i haven't heard anybody discussion are you thank you all very much but the briefing still did not convince skeptical democrats make no mistake this president has a bit strange itching for a confrontation with iran i believe that a war with iran would be. an absolute disaster. underlying this crisis a decision by president donald trump to unilaterally pull out the 2015 nuclear deal

with iran and as the briefings were taking place iran was announcing it had quadrupled its production of enriched uranium this many democrats a consequence of a president rejecting a negotiated deal with no thought as to what should replace it mike hanna al-jazeera washington. increasingly difficult iranians say. the most pressing problem. * in iran is usually a time of spiritual reflection charity and family but for a 2nd year in a row as iranians began a month of fasting there was escalating pressure from the united states. every day they face angry exchanges with american leaders a buildup of u.s. forces on their doorstep warnings to commercial flights in. airspace and threats

from arab neighbors saudi arabia the u.a.e. and. on top of an economy in freefall. it's one of these guys that's a whistle. america can do anything. even though they are strong iran's armed forces will stand against them but. we think military is as strong as past but it isn't we should never face america directly i'm afraid because we keep saying they can't do anything they finally well and and the islamic revolutionary guard corps that took to the streets in the revolution and changed everything some people speratus to that that. but it isn't. a u.s. carrier strike group deployed close by in the arabian sea was for some a chance for a little levity a widely shared post has the abraham lincoln up for sale on a website for used goods. but for many talk of war is

a real concern that some hope can be resolved through dialogue if you're going to make everything in the 2nd edition i mean i think if they enter into talks it would be better because this is the 21st century and we should avoid war now is the time for dialogue jank even as a man and a man also god of war in my opinion is not good for us now negotiation is the best our government could overlook some issues if this pressure could be reduced speaking to a group of young artists iranian president hassan rouhani said he always remains open to the idea of dialogue but not with us bullies even if it means taking on the world alone. iranians too young to remember when their country last fought a war say fighting america seems unreal. yet many say they have more faith in the country's strategic defenses than its economy in the past year the prices of fast moving consumer goods like food and household items have all gone up even bread

a staple of the iranian diet that has been price controlled for decades is more expensive now and in some places the price of a piece of bread has tripled whether they have known war or not a few here are keen to rush into battle with the united states in a meeting of the to her own city council this week chairman most in hushed me rafsanjani the son of a founding father of the islamic republic warned that dissatisfaction and the possibility of unrest over high prices is iran's biggest immediate threat more so than another american war in the middle east same bus or aviel jazeera. the us has announced it seen signs the syrian government may have renewed its use of chemical weapons.