whether the electorate, i'm going to buy that former french minister and businessman bennett's happy has died at the age of $78.00. he being diagnosed with cancer. 4 years ago, tuffy rose from modest beginnings to become one of france's most successful and high profile business leaders. he dabbled in politics and sports, but a trial for match fixing and it were them serving time in jail in the 19 ninety's. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, leaked financial records are casting a spotlight on the world's rich and powerful, so called pandora papers accuse jordan's king the presidents of russia and as a by john and a former british prime minister as well as many others of amassing secret wealth and avoiding taxes. sol says north korea and south korea have restored a stoled communication channel. chung cut the hot line in august and protest against military drills as sole conducted with united states. but since then,

young young said it may consider a summit with its southern neighbour. robin bright has more from hong kong. these hot lines are very important. they are the lines of communication across the dns, e between the north and the south. it prevents any accidental misunderstandings. it's very important that they are kept open, given the fragility of relations and the, the amount of arguments along the d, m. z. now, they tend to be cotton restored depending on how relations are at any given point in time. and of course, with the dipping relations that we saw in the last year or 2 with the ad, with the ending alpha negotiations over at north korea's nuclear arsenal. los st. all those talks became stalled. at least 13 people who been killed in an explosion in afghanistan capital, the bombing targeted. the 2nd largest boss in cub old a memorial service was being held there for the mother of a taliban spokesman. at least 32 people were injured. conservative groups in mexico

have rallied against a court ruling that decriminalized abortion last month. the country supreme court ruled that punishing woman for ending pregnancies and the northern state of koya is unconstitutional. the spanish government has pledged $239000000.00 to help the island of la palmer recovered from the devastation brought by its abrupt in volcano prime minister pedal sanchez made the commitment on sunday during your visit to the island emergency response teams in the canary islands to say the volcano is becoming much more aggressive. tropical cycling shaheen has hit the gulf states of oman, killing 3 people. one of them was a child swept away by flood water. thousands of people to be urged to leave coastal areas and had to emergency shelters. it's the 1st siphon in modern history to come close to the northern coast of oman. and those are the headlines that he's continues here on al jazeera after earth rice. good by. there is no channel

that covers world views like we do as a roaming correspondent. i am constantly on the go covering topics from politics to close legacy to environmental issues. the scale of this camp is like nothing you've ever seen had to tell terry. what we want to know is how do these things affect people? we revisit places and stay, even when they're no international headlines. al jazeera really invests in that, and that's a privilege, as a journalist, ah, climate change is an existential threats to life on the world health organization

projects. but in 30 years it will be directly responsible for the death of over 250000 people. each year, many feel governments of 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. put determined, pressure groups, believe change is possible, thus seeking to push urgent environmental action to the top. the political agenda and these movements a gathering momentum. i'm the raw, tore in the us where a group of dung active if it's pushing for a radical shift in government policy in order to avert a climate crisis. and i'm making the carbon in the u. k. and i've come to learn. c about the movement known as extinction. rebellion, whose members believe is the only route to environmental change for a people is rising.

fearful for the planet, they'll inherit young p for around the world are standing up and demanding a better future. in the u. s. a growing and passionate group of youth is campaigning for urgent environmental actions. and the forcing the adults to listen we're talking about pace is happening now. this is the sunrise movement. in speech, just 2 years, this group of activists, most of whom are under 30, has grown 210-0000 members. i'm not for the one with their strategy is clear to halt climate change. my working within the system and lobbying politicians into pushing through legislative and economic reform had come to boston to find out how the sunrise movement has become a force to be reckoned with in us politics. leading the charge is 26 year olds,

varsity for cash. while studying in massachusetts, she joined the university's fossil fuel divestment campaign before co founding sunrise in 2015. so you've been with the sunrise movement from the very beginning. what made you started? a number of us young people, all under the age of 30, we're seeing that the hurricanes were getting bigger, the fires, seasons were getting longer, the floods were getting bigger. but there wasn't a movement big enough for young people to ensure that we had a habitable planet for our future generations. do you talk more about why you feel you need to act right 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 to be carbonized, to get off fossil fuels, to invest in renewables. 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

not built and garner and the political will that we need and people are dying. as a result, the heart of the sunrise strategy is the green new deal, a radical environmental change policy, the idea for which was conceived in the u. s. in the 960 s. the deals goal is to completely transform the u. s. economy by ending as dependency on fossil fuels investing as jed and renewable energy and creating jobs in the process. the bringing a deal is a 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. ah, i'm curious to find out whether a real political change is possible with people power alone, particularly by those so young i've come to the sunrise, boston hub. there are 204 hubs like this spread across the nation.

here, every month, 60 sunrise members gather to share experiences, get behind the cos. welcome to our april 2nd, and how do i get you in a row with the hubs? people of all backgrounds and opportunity to come together and voice, their concerns. every single person who decided to come to the senior today is a part of this movement is a part of this greater moment in history. these are young people need to be heard. it's pretty tough for tmj. mm hm. and they

want to take positive steps to fix the world. we live a has a little selection was just yeah, the hub. listen to break out groups where they plan their next action. what do we think? what actually make the high schoolers and listen, we just post slide the green background with the words like brand new deal and put a link in our bio or something i know interrupt. so feel free to hear me, dear friends, in high school care about climate change, a lie of people i know know that climate change is an issue there. that's not the debate. the debate is how willingly are to get involved. i think a lot of young people don't feel like they have the power at all to make any change . it actually comes together. you totally can change so many things. i thought i was coming into a meeting and it's really a lot more than that. there is energy there engaged you feel the sense of urgency is not a big reality for them. this was

a user and you can feel that the for all their passion, how effective a summer is actually been marsh. these invited me to her home to show the impact sunrise is heard and the top tiers of power. so this was from our 1st action acts nancy pelosi office in washington dc. and as you can see, there's literally hundreds of young people lining up the halls. and they're carrying science that they, 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 want it to be joyous. and we want it to be raucous, and we want it to be serious,

and we want it to be determined and resolved. nunnery say that older generations, chronic and activity on environmental issues is inexcusable. the united states will cease all implementation of the nog, biding paris, accord the current republic. government refuses to even acknowledge there is a problem. so sunrise, believe they must act to make change happen and is alive or that are good. talking right now. and they are being heard. green generation has risen up. a growing number of democrats senators now support the green new deal. and sunrise have found influential political allies in socially conscious representatives like alexandria, casio, cortez. this is bright before representative because they are cortez unprecedentedly joined us on her 1st day of orientation as a new congresswoman. to say that we have nancy pelosi in the democratic parties

back in pushing for the most progressive and ambitious energy agenda. this country has ever seen with back with her, 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 down in 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 with an agreement 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 for sunrise. aim to create momentum for their cars by direct clean

lobbying political leaders. do it, hire dead, sean and his team plan to doorstep andrea campbell, the president of boston city council, got it. the goal today is get her to simon know fossil fuel money, but she got it. i'd later down the road, we're working with her and i several other counselors to craft a resolution burglary. new deal that's going to pass the city council showing missouri the 1st step for the group is to encourage politicians to sign a pledge, promising that they will refuse money from fossil fuel 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 jail to meet you, you're in the front on nice to me, you were pumped. we're here to ask you if you could side the know fossil fuel money pledge sh, absolutely. i mean, i will say before i even you know,

sign miss. thank you for your advocacy in your work. the stuff doesn't happen by accident if people aren't showing up. so happy to participate, happy to do this. i just wanted to say thank you. so it's not a step movement where they're confronting a lot of hostility, they're actually getting support and encouragement and warmth, really. from politicians. i think we lead by example, and i know i do. and so by saying, let's do this. signing on and committing. we hoped that others would 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 rhetoric because it shows that we do have allies out there that we can be working with in the system to, to promote change that we want to see the world job. he had 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 is a green new deal. so when the next government is elected in 2020, the bill has the weight of support to make it policy. the sunrise of event is asking for a lot and they're asking for it quickly. critic say they're too idealistic for for problem as massive as climate change. we do need ambitious radical solutions now. ah, today's environmental site risings of the post as proof, that is incredible. social change really is possible in 1000 no 3 in britain. the suffragettes campaigned for women to have the rights to vote with a rallying cry of deeds not words they often resorted to extreme acts at at some race course. emily davidson even gave her life for the course. these tactics worked in 1928 women, one equal voting rights in britain 35 years later in america,

the civil rights movement. so to end racial segregation, martin luther king lex, the peaceful protests. non problem is the most horrible available. hoover mid roll interview for freedom interview with by $968.00 after a decade of campaigning, african americans to secure legal rights to equal employment voting and housing. by analyzing passive resistance movements, political scientist erica chenoweth identified a threshold for success. if 3 and a half percent of the population mobilize against the establishment, social change will happen, ah, a toss many last night that has to change the way we treat out. there is one group which is taking things to the next level. hey,

the 2018 group of act risks, i'm good by political inaction on climate change declared themselves to be an open defiance of the u. k. government. they called themselves extinction. rebellion or x are for sure i'm doing the right amount because they what, outside the system, engaging in bold, non violent acts of civil disobedience. their strategy is to create headline grabbing protest 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 to spread across full continent. i'm at that london headquarters on the day of one of their most extreme actions, yet in a protest day, a cooling blood of our children ex,

our plant sto 500 liters of fake blood on downing street office and residents of the british prime minister. hi clair, and i live in history. nice me one of the exiles co founders is clare tiro waited the i dare of the blood of our children. we were already suffering a genocide because of the impacts of pollution. so we're trying of 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 with as we make our way to downing street, i want to know why they're compelled to confront the political establishment in such a drastic way. we think it's important our actions to direct to that government because this only, i think a state lead a thought internationally that's going to make a meaningful change to the situation that we're in. so we're trying to represent

the kind of visceral reality of death and suffering which climate change is, or where to start to close around the world in which it will cause in the future. the procession is designed to feel like a funeral match. it comes to a stop and the crowd views silent. ah, the part of my children of children and young people here. ah. x r a making a profound statement? just a stone's 30 from the prime minister's office. ah, we need to take action. we don't have much time left. please don't let this be the reality. i'm struck by the emotion on the display.

but what is the political change the extinction rebellion? want to see? what do you want to achieve by all of us? we do have 3 main demands. the 1st one is for the government to tell the truth, it's helped communicate the crisis to the public. the 2nd demand is to reduce carbon emissions to net 0 by 2025. 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 a cheaper well, i think it's necessary. mm hm. x i want to become impossible to ignore. so it's members, a planning the biggest protest yet. they hope to bring london to a standstill with a 2 week human blockade of the city streets. at exiles h key, i'm missing one of the chief coordinators of the shut down larch. maxine,

what we're doing today, rebellion is having a gala causing the level of disruption that could bring about you know, the government to me, ottomans, do you think that your risk of almost alienation yourself by crossing over into that legal category? look, there's a climate crisis. there's an ecological crisis. we're here to stop this. he existential threat. we face, we non violent, the maintaining respect, we're putting ourselves on the lines, whips michigan are in liberty. the plan is to block the streets of the you, case capitol with walls of people. they'll chain lock and even glue themselves to structures and to one another. these actions are deliberately planned to create maximum disruption and caused arrests. just lichtenstein trains members on how to deal with the police in a non violent way. can only have a activist who is willing to be arrested and carried off the lease. ma'am,

in the middle you're willing to gara said they're not going to make it easy for them. members are trained to go live as soon as they attached, or i would say we're gonna, we're going to rest no. what we take as many as 5 police offices to remove a single activist. by maximizing the number of arises, x are believe they can create publicity, and a groundswell of support, ah, extension. valiant only way for this is the only way they believe that things are going to improve the sort of civil disobedience and these kinds of actions. 15th of april, 2019 and it's the morning of the london shut down. 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 hope. i'm meeting class, she prepares for what could be the biggest demonstration in exxon history and come

in thank hey, feeling hopeful. i'm feeling hopeful that we're going to have more input, graham, huff, and more people can understand the message from the and the seriousness of it. the reason why we have to do this is because it is this bad. we do feel this afraid to our future. don't know what else to do with extinction rebellions target is the government. but the people who will be hit hardest to day on the everyday commuters as a tried to get to work this potential then the, all of this can be disrupted and people might not be able to get to where they go. and because of the actions that say, hey, how is that justify? we're really sorry. we don't really want to do this, but we also don't want to pass on the planet to the next generation. we arrive at oxford circus at 8 30 am and only

a handful of activists ahead. we quickly get a taste of where public favour might lie with i'm not quite sure how the group succeed in blocking the very heart of london was the plan here because at the moment the rate isn't occupies, there's nothing on it. so what is going to happen? groups of people are going to close roads and then something should be arriving waving out of the blue reinforcements arrive. oh, it's something i didn't expect in a meeting with hundreds of activists crowd around the boat on the london shut down has to come in. in a master of ours,

10000 supposes descend upon 5 sites. of course, the capital, oxford circus parliament square marble arch, piccadilly, circus, and washington bridge manned by large and his team. they have blocked the entire stretch of rage with trees, a music stage, camps and a human bull. i place in the and i've managed to find locked status. notice police activity, correct? i'm just watching them guy ball. yeah. what's been happening or we're just going to monitor in the place. those numbers have increased slightly at some point that gonna be under pressure declared bridge for me. and what we've got to try and do is get numbers to build. question is, how much disruption will the government force us to create until they do the right thing? and meet the demands and start to try and keep the site, and you're willing to lose your liberty for it and get arrested. if people are

willing to sacrifice the liberty, it sends a message to the public, to the media and to the guilt. the politicians that this is a serious issue. elsewhere demonstrations are escalating as protest is target the largest oil and gas company in europe. shout, just run down to a site where some rebel is, have super good themselves and not from south up outside shall h, p or friend lie. i meet lyndon at woodson. one of the lead demonstrate is here. tell me a little bit about why your hair showers know about the problem of climate change for over 30 years. and they, all, one of the biggest bits is called in the water to like these acts of criminal damage or the catalyst for the police to make that 1st dress. oh, need to hum shell accountable with the atrocities to human kind as well. natural, well, who does seem to extinction? rebellion rebel has been taken away by please. i know some extra value into getting

exactly what they're off to. ah, 8 hours after the shut down began. please take action. citing section 14 of the public order act, which forbids obstruction the highway ah. more than 1000 arrests and 30000 new recruits later with going school to course 33 countries. the u. k. government finally agrees to meet exxon on 1st of may. 2019 the house of commons makes history becoming the 1st national parliament in the world to declare a climate and ecological emergency. ah, climate change, activism stretches back 50 years. april the 22nd 1970 saw the launch of us day. 20000000 americans took to the streets on a modern environmental movement was born. and the eighty's,

greenpeace took matters into their own hands. heading to the seas to battle the commercial dumping of toxic waste, nuclear testing and whale hunting. to day, the movement has a new fig ahead and teenager gretta turned back. the older generations have failed, tackling the biggest crisis humanity as of the face by going on school strike. she inspired 1400000 students and 112 countries to join her in a global woke house. the message has been clear for 50 years, but to day the voice is louder and more insistence than ever. ah, that cry change must happen now. ah, every war leads the devastating in thank tell me environment earth rise, explore some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientist. a

safeguarding one of our most valuable results is these are important samples. we have to make sure they are surviving. each other, refugees striving to co exist with nature. okay, so what's going on there? we have simulating what happens when an elephant comes life off to conflict on al jazeera, for the congolese, but journey to work, or that means unimaginable. hodge. i prefer to live. oh, interesting, do i get the captain to chancing life and live on a dangerous journey through the jungle? when i fell on to the rail set up when i nearly died about children 8th go to school and live because of the praying risking it all the democratic republic of congo on al jazeera too often of con, astonished portray, through the prism of war. but there were many of canister thanks to the

brave individuals who risk their lives to protect it from destruction. an extraordinary film archives spanning for decades reviews the forgotten truths of the country's modern history. the forbidden real part for the era of darkness on a jazeera lou . millions of financial documents known as the pandora papers have been leaked. it's claimed they revealed the secret wealth of dozens of world leaders. ah, m robinson, this is obviously alive from doha. also coming up north and south korea are talking again a hotline is being reconnected.