many people to abide by the restrictions because there is a lot to get used to there are police and soldiers on the streets police have said that they will all racist people who don't abide by these restrictions possible 6 months jail time or perhaps a heavy fines so the coming days really will be a test for south africans with regard to just how while they abide by these descriptions the u.s. justice department is charged venezuelan president nicolas maduro and several of his officials in the drug trafficking are accused of running a so-called narco state israel's opposition leader benny gantz has called for an emergency unity government after being elected speaker of the country's parliament the move could lead to an alliance with his rival prime minister benjamin netanyahu . so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power stations are watching i think. how much is the coronavirus on the stock market affecting the race to the white house will it be joined by bernie

sanders you see the democratic nomination i believe we can be down from follow all the developments in the u.s. 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 the space arguments about the place about closure between those worried about the economic consequences and those who believe that immediate action necessary to combat 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 1st timers in just 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 the west 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 far as i was on my own or my son was on my luck or 6 years but. that's that's the end cause you have gone all mining in birmingham black oh my is anyone else how

do you feel about that oh the turret so. i told me he 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 gult 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 but their days underground or over the. older miners were given early retirement younger ones were helped 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 that's my tells life that i define the word mission then to hear him say call the backbone let me build this also. to not to listen to the playing alpha instead of give this a label. 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 shrem big did it tough as the christina hints here explains. i had just bought. a further thought rushed home taught a don't hurt kept as i n. the shite and voice stand in tell ourselves. as a slight us or does not dare. think anson under an industry class and mostly only

textile interest. 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 bloom 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. 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. told us.

big smear insists it's much better than waiting for cold inevitable long term wind . the government has agreed to kick in 40000000000 euros to kick start new industries in the brown home region. and. auntie in a given of her end result at a starched and enzyme household fire may arden paul ya boy be outside on most us ima. just counted on this is tell her i know and it's. 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 come to tense in a in a game at home. 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. many activists insist the world can't wait. we have to phase out poland 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. however. absolutely common. safeguard is a security guard at the coal plants 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 as a senator who is going to be oh and i know you're going to hear. somebody. but my data. says fleiss yeah this is. actually worse and worse life for the 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 coffee or dinner 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 these details it's just marketing dollars it's a hoax delouse it does is. it. fine shaft as this is unmarked and yes by my left by middle finger on it does on my ass. i didn't either. mustang can see the importance for. the ones of us and the condition vanzant of was your heart of the. former doesn't view or. said light again so it was fresh beauty of. the innocent do you believe new orleans or indeed i was 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 that slated to close early in 2020. banners proclaiming we live from coal not great fairy tales. are known. to then you know when i give up hope i don't get them got a full time job here. when there's an infant son and then a coil of pop like i get when the spawn have. to be loaded for me. in the main loose ation town of compost there's a growing police presence and then not just keeping an eye out for him to go 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 out numbered 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 i'm actually saying i am content with all 250 maybe 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 falls down yes it does that mean you're already had 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 coal and not because we all know that we have to end coal the question is how fast do you have to do it and the answer to my

opinion that you had to do was stop it this was discussed. mr ghani was the david and i and i agree on. all nick didn't know their daughter we didn't see visa for test only that week was all i could do you go. oh never mind pages you know only the bush budget that's been on my. own been on my mind and didn't show misleading benjamin live given the good news now i'm going to call it. the tony jones that's who goes there yes. no no no. i. just found out here for live 5 that i thought of the years out that day and 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. the. god that. you are either own. home. oh yes. you thought 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 the lawsuits. the speed.

with both and happy as they come in plenty to say no importance in christina henchy eva mayor of tells them. they won't be pressured to stop called soon as they are called will miss stanley almost a 100 that's is i know dead and i was as i have parents speak to you they beat it or 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 me. that in his hands 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 marching doesn't you know bring a change if we need to if that's a form of action to 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 sign targeteers 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 a difference actually offering nurse after colors for the record we are out of maybe apps on the strength 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 steve or you differently a strange 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 it to. feel. woke up. this 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 lower use both players 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 and. so. on the last times her. size 1st. was just passed during the 1st section has been successful and he'll keep on the lip 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 moose say she is cold industry to a standstill c. it's a symbolic act colleague 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've seen in germany is that the. change for climate justice didn't come from the government it was fought for and won by a strong socialism we are part of that in fact the government is under intense pressure to show the transition the green party is demanding a maximum of 10 days but germany is still light years ahead of countries planning to expand to coal production. it's not a question of if cull goes the way. the

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