in dollars when we're done new york city only gets $1300000000.00 from this package . that is a drop in the bucket as to need i spoke to our house delegation congressional delegation this morning i said to them just as into spain is now overtaken china to recall the 2nd highest number of carette a virus deaths with 3 and a half 1000 victims still just half the number in italy where the death rate in the worst hit area and appears to be slowing. in china travel restrictions are beginning to be lifted in who bay province where the outbreak was 1st recorded people canal leave the area for the 1st time in 2 months if they can prove good health they've got you can always catch up with our website any time to rest that is there dot com coming up next it's people in power in the cold war examining the gradual closure of germany's coal industry likes watching season.

how much is the coronavirus on the stock market calles affecting the race to the white house will it be to pry open sanders who secures the democratic nomination awfully weak and beat down trying to follow all the developments in the us election campaign on al jazeera. in response to global warming germany is in the process of closing down its coal industry for many years the country's principal source of energy especially in the form of the communist east but there's fierce all humans about the pace of that closure between those worried about the economic consequences and those who believe that immediate tax is necessary to come back to climate change so who will win germany's cold war.

only germany's just feels. a region of factories smokestacks and shocked. so this is just for the visitors now just as a result this is and like thousands of men before me i'm going down a coal mine. this is stepping into the bowels of modern german history. 1875. ships were built in the 2nd world war the boots of 1st the 1st comers in this

ok. the. coal from the rule valley the dutch border helped build the steel that the 3rd reich. when germany lost the war and was split into a capitalist west and the soviet run east this cold helped remake germany into would economic power. my grandfather this is like this yes this is of course. called. it we use it like this to destroy big storms right. siegel was born into this world and thought he'd die in it by hand. by enough my father was a miner my son was on my luck or 60 years but. that's that's the end

cause you have gone all mining in permanent black coal mines anyone else how do you feel about that now the target so. i told me it was very sad areas here. this is no longer a working. mine and some fellow ex miners run it as a tourist attraction to show visitors how life used to be so. it was. in 2018 germany closed its last black. and the rule tradition dating back centuries shot to our side.

this is the corporate headquarters of the rule coal giant rangy its main job now is rehabilitating the closed minds the foyer proudly displays one of the last black nuggets never mind that christophe biker is the company's last spokesman in colson's this is like a piece of the berlin wall yes this is a part of a burglar or a wall for us at the last coal and we take care of this part and nobody is allowed to told to take a piece of it. it's like a baby. germany's transition from calls started in 2007 when the cull corp sat down with the unions and politicians and agreed to close down all the black coal mines by 28 saying the deal was that no workers would be sacked that all be given early retirement or found jobs in other industries it

was an heroic gulp and back then it had nothing to do with climate change it was all about money. but the 1970s it was cheaper to import coal than to dig it up from the rules underground mines the industry was surviving on government subsidies politicians decided in 2007 to pay not any longer subsidies father coal production. and to re decided to close. with the polluters in this company and they asked us how much time you need to do that without any problems so you close the black coal industry without firing any workers yes for this you need to think of some time and money but we have had both.

the. was not in my view. many of those workers still get together in the rule colquhoun bought their days underground or over the. older miners were given early retirement younger ones will help to find new jobs. in this choir that ranges from a. research scientist to a budding trade union delegates christian who's 31 is looking forward to his new life representing workers the titles like that and the fun. mission then to hear him say call back all the love he's been disloyal shun. to not to listen to the play an alpha instead of give this a label big. but elsewhere in the country mining

continues. because germany is still europe's biggest producer of brown color. i'm driving from the rule valley to the old east germany. the region of loose a show on the polish border has huge reserves of this low grade high polluting fuel . brown coal is a big employer here and they keep the jobs. after communism collapsed in 989 and germany reunited towns like sram big did it tough as the christina hints here explains. i had just bought a quarter interest to further hurt. aided hurt kept as i am in the shade and for stand in their lauer's or.

as a slight us or does not dare i need gunson under an industry in the glass and mostly only textile industry. pots and. brown coal is profitable because it isn't deep on the ground it's dug up near the surface taken to nearby power plants and burned to boil water to make electricity. but it's even dirtier than black culture. the problem isn't the steam you see pouring out of cooling towers it's the carbon emissions you can't send. in the cosmopolitan capital berlin environmentalists have been demanding politicians shouted down. we need to end fossil fuels right now we don't have any time to waste anymore we can't wait another 18 years so we're taking direct action

to call for the immediate phase out of culture me. daniel hoffecker is an activist with a new kind of protest movement called. meaning game. as a mass action of civil disobedience against cold climate injustice and germany and what we're doing right now is to prepare ourselves for this action. does a march in the streets it uses military style tactics to occupy col areas fielding thousands of disciplined activists in strategic formations to evade police and shot infrastructure down. the movement has put intense pressure on a government already struggling to cut emissions since the paris climate change agreement of 2015.

germany can't hope to meet its paris targets unless it closes all this so a commission representing politicians corporations use local government has just sounded the death knell for brown call but crucially in what's called the call compromise the going to be given nearly 2 decades to adjust the plan is that by 2038 at the latest the last brown coal mines and all the coal fired power plants will be gone for good. you might think people in new say she would be horrified. if the course is it and how they feel down for you to do it does is it. was one of the members of the coal commission that thrashed out the compromise. and i and molly have to have. told us.

big smear insists it's much better than waiting for cold inevitable long term decline. the government has agreed to kick in 40000000000 euros to kick start new industries in the brown coal region. and a clean. aunty in a given of her end result at a starched and enzyme household fire may arden paul ya boy be outside and most us ima. get is just counting on this is tell her i know and. spec and get leaked the region is already seeing the fruits of germany's embrace of renewal energy wind turbines and solar farms sprouting up next to power plants germany still relies

on domestic and imported coal for about a 3rd of its electricity but around 40 percent comes from renewable energy. the i aim is to make that 65 percent by the end of the decade. in a cubicle and also competence in a in a game at home. and there in a. region hoping to turn the old coal fields into an eco tourism destination as disused mine pits a rehabilitated into artificial likes. the 2038 deadline should give the region plenty of time to adapt. but many activists insist the world can't wait. we have to phase out coal in germany right now if we don't do that it's going to be quite another for the the end of the world as we know it the i.p.c.c.

tells us that if we continue burning coal we're running into catastrophic climate change. as the transition details of being worked out and to go in there announces its next mass occupation will be loose aisha. the announcement doesn't go down well with most locals. my car for all. our. excellent work on. frank say what is a security guard at a coal plant he's as passionate about to say shia as he is about hunting i'm like oh my god blesses us oh. my god. well

there's with many loose ations e had to find a new way after communism ended and state subsidies dried up as well as working security for energy companies he runs a small business selling preserved meat scripts kills. us that's a neutral to be 0 and i know you're going to hear. somebody. but my data. says fleischer yeah this is very important for those of us. bronx a bill believes the east was hard done by after reunification between have been avoided by a few hours of my knowledge found in a micro cough or dealer to come home fuming your nutritional value are not happy about you have a dog. vomit fall foul child. people

learn to rely on each other and they don't like being pressured by outsiders less food i know they get on his dolls it's marketing dollars it solves the laws of does is. it. fine shaft as this is unmarked and yes by my left but i'm noble from god it does on my own. i didn't our . bus then can see. the ones of us and the condition vanzant of was your heart of the. former. why doesn't your. senate. do you believe new orleans. on good as a spend. 2

days before the threatened protest loose ations a staging a counter approaches they've set up a vigil at a power plant slated to close early in 2028. banners proclaiming we live from coal not great fairytales. known. then and then argue that got a foot. on the sun. and then a coil of pop like i get on the phone here. i think the floor will be. in the mainly sation town of compost there's a growing police presence and then not just keeping an eye out for and again and. while it's the day before the big protest and by coincidence across germany school

students are going on strike for climate change though in this coal town it's a little more difficult right now the millennial are almost outnumbered by police. in many other cities tens of thousands of students are marching the organize a hear constantine got a good ski has kept his expectations lower. so close to him how many people do you think munching thanks i am content with all 250 maybe if we had in the. year that's it's good but it's a lot less than other german cities yes is it difficult to do a protest like this in this whole town yes it does that mean you're already head demonstrations against venue is uncommon in every other job and city i think. so do you feel a bit divided being from a cold community but protesting against poland and not because we all know that we

have to end color the question is how fast you have to do it and. in my opinion that you have to stop it this was discussed. mr gandhi was a bit dated now you know and there you are. all nicked him you know their daughter you couldn't see he's a foretaste you know me and we can but there's a lot i can do you. know on them and never get my attention. you know only the bush budget that's been on my. own been on my mind and getting home this weekend and given me given the good news now i'm in a corner. but the only ones i had to go through that. i know i was you i. just found out here the lies the 5 i don't think was out that day yet there is

a generational divide. the kids don't remember communism and they don't see a future in an industry that's heating the planet for now they can tend to make their point in peaceful street much as. god. oh you are either. home. before you are you though that night coal mining families gather at a power plant to show their support for the coal compromise its. giant videos praise the industry and accuse end the glenda of intimidation that i was. with the speaker. for the well this was.

the night that i would follow both and happy as they come in plenty to stand on point to christina him a the mayor of tells them they won't be pressured to stop cold sooner. will miss stanley our sky 100 have that is i know it and i was as i can speak to you they beat it ok thank you. from 4 am end the girl in this activist start assembling at berlin central station ready to board a train to say show the. sounds yeah. he doesn't feel like a gathering of football hooligans they insist it's only the police who use violence

they've lost faith in peaceful. a little bit anxious that because of course doing these blockades of civil disobedience it's a different form of protest because we've seen it marching doesn't you know bring a change if we need to if that's a form of action take. and but we're going to be like thousands of people so i'm really looking for today. none of them know they're a soft target coordinators will use an encrypted app to message them to make it harder for police to stop. an hour into the journey they start putting on red beautiful eyes this is just one of 6 groups heading for the new sation coal fields. so in order to be more flexible and more effective with our pockets trend we're splitting up the difference actually offering nurse after colors for the record we are 5000

people maybe perhaps your best friend of. one of the reasons for the uniforms is to make it harder for police to identify. many ask us not to film their faces and start scratching out the fingerprints on the event. just leave it for you to flee a scary thing else given our i.d.'s. arriving at the station they still haven't been told their destination but at a given signal they split in 2. i woke up. that one group rushes down the road to drool the main police force away while daniels group cuts into the forest. of good. police awaiting at the forestay. but a flower you spoke plays lets the crowd rush through.

suddenly we're at the age of a giant coal mine and there's not enough police to stop the. frustrated some resort to pepper spray and bats an. eye. on the last times oh i. thought. i was just past door but the 1st action has been successful and you'll keep our belief of the mine about the in time on his napco staff and elsewhere in the region there are 5 other things is talk of the other mines power stations and wildlife

crossings it's going to be up. for the next 10 hours they bring lou say she is cold industry to a standstill 'd. it's a symbolic act colleagues struction and burning soon resumes. but the message is as much for the government as the corporations call is going to end so now. the german government wants to support to call industry but there's a huge social movement in the way if that and what we see in germany is that the. change for climate justice didn't come from because it was fought for and won by a strong source we are part of that effect the government is under intense pressure to shoulder the transition the green party is demanding a maximum of 10 use but germany is still light years ahead of countries planning to expand coal production. here it's not

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