frank assessments saying that. 6 percent of the relation all facing life being served is what's an informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many calls of the a little me region are actually under a de facto state of a nijinsky critical debate of that is a proxy because look at everything the interest of the libyan people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story 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 formerly communist east but there's fierce arguments 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 real. a region of factories smokestacks and shop it's. 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. 875. shifts

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 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 and that by when. 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 coal mining in birmingham black coal mines anywhere how do you feel about that now the survey so. it's told me 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. to us such.

this is the corporate headquarters of the rule coal giant rangy its main job now was rehabilitating the closed minds the foyer proudly displays one of the last black nuggets ever 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 history was surviving on government subsidies politicians decided in 2007 to $2.00 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 the telephone. mission then to

him cycling back home let me spend this little shot. to not to listen to the pain elfish said of you this i live in big. but elsewhere in the country mining continues. because germany is still europe's biggest producer of brown coal. 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. to communism collapsed in 989 and germany reunited towns like sram big did it tough as the christina hints here explains. to quote i had just bought.

a further thought. for a don't hurt keep as i n. the shite and for stand in delhi hours or. as a slight us or does not dare i need think i answered 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 see. 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 the lender meaning game. is 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. doesn't 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 unions and local governments 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 threshed out the compromise. and i and molly 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. auntie in a given of her end result at a starched and enzyme household fire may our then pour ya boy be outside and most us ima. get stuck on the 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 divide in a given level and also come to tense in a in a game at home. in a. region hoping to turn the old coal field 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. i would say felt as a security guard at a coal plant he's as passionate about bruce asia as he is about hunting i'm like oh

my god blesses us oh. so 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. and the bees are oh and i so hope they're going to hear. somebody. but my data. is fly shit yeah this is hell. for those of us. bronx 8 built 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 must i know they get on his dolls it's marketing dollars it's all this he allows it does is. it. fine shaft as this is are marked and yes by my left but animal from god it does on my part i didn't either. mustang can see. the day much harsher words of yours and the commish vanzant of was your heart of. your former. why doesn't your. senate lie to the ginsu fresh beauty of.

do you believe new orleans. or indeed i was a spaniard in. 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. and then argue that up for. started. and then a coil of pop like i get when the full half of. i don't get older than me. in the main loose ation 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 the machine 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 cold down 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 coal and not because we all know that we have to end color the question is how fast do you have to do it and. in my opinion that you have to stop it this was also idle. mr gandhi was a bit dated now you know and there you are. all nicknames you know their daughter we didn't see these the protest oh you know we can but it's all 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 it given the good news now i'm in a corner. but the only ones i have to go through that. i know you are

being. and that's fun out here is the lies the 5 i thought of the 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 miss out on 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 the i was in.

the speech. this is. the sort of i will follow both and happy as they come in plenty to say no point to kristina him a the mayor of tells them they won't be pressured to stop cold soon. will miss stanley our sky 100 have him that is i know better than i was as i can speak to you they beat it ok thanks. from 4 am end the girl in this activist start assembling at berlin central station ready to board a train to use a show he. met 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 soft target yet coordinators will use an encrypted app to message them to make it harder for police to stop them. 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 trying we're splitting up the difference actually offering nurse doctor colors for the practicing or we are thinking about people 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 and. just leave it for you the police or anything 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 and then 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 and. i. am glad times oh oh. oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh it's just part dormant the 1st action has been successful

and you'll keep on the lip of the mind but the entire mind is now cause death 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 a day. for the next 10 hours they bring new say she is cold in the street 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 ames so now. the german government wants to support the coal 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 to come from because it was fought for and one by a strong socialist we are part of that of. 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 coal production. it's not a question of if coal goes the way. examining the headlines that said to me business wise to iran and they watch it on the news and i think you can find unflinching journalism how relevant is the debate here in this day and age how he characterized the protest movement i would say that we have served in a way king of the nation sharing personal stories with a global audience. explore an abundance of world class programming the world is watching on al-jazeera.

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