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this is the news live from berlin millions across the globe protest for climate after doing this to wait this out we are dealing with this to get them to act. we deserve the same. organizers say it's the biggest climate demonstration the world has ever seen marchers on every continent 3rd world leaders to do more to protect the environment and the german government gives its response chancellor angela merkel's coalition agrees on
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a 50000000000 euro climate protection package of protesting students say the plan is disastrous fails to fix its trust. plus dashed hopes for u.f.o. hunters plans to storm the secretive area $51.00 military base in the nevada desert in search of aliens fizzle only several dozen people turn up. a michael welcome to the program. worldwide protests to demand action on climate change have drawn huge crowds with an estimated $4000000.00 people taking to the streets a movement that started with children skipping school on fridays has grown into a global force united and old and young people will keep up the pressure today
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holding the 1st ever youth climate summit at the united nations in new york. they're the largest climate protests the world has ever seen that's what organizers have been calling friday's wave of strikes for the planet. student demonstrators took to the streets in well over a 100 countries some of the 1st rallies kicked off in australia. and every run the front lines i mean change you know it's already happening it's not waiting for it to happen or you know a matter of if it's already here. in new york thousands of students were permitted to skip school for the event. hello new york city was created to invoke the 16 year old swedish activists who seen as the initiator of the climate strikes movement addressed cheering crowds . we will not just stand aside and watch we are
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united behind the science and we will do everything in our power to stop this crisis from getting worse. in thailand hundreds of young protesters stormed the environment ministry dropping to the ground to play dead. was. with africa among the continent's considered most vulnerable to climate changes the facts protesters in kenya highlighted their sense of urgency. why. young people in india joined the rallies in the hope that adults in power
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would listen to their appeals. that. this is a fight this is going to impact every day for the rest of my life this is a fight i'm fighting the war and i have heard it will not be boiling over we're seeing stuff you know by biting go up with a war which in which i will be able to do. and not least intimated to own country sweden thousands turned up in the capital stockholm to young activists rallying cry which has now been heard around the world. correspondent carla bleicher was one of thousands on hand for the protests in new york she delivered this assessment of today's rally. today's global climate strike was the biggest of its kind in human history one of the epicenters of the action new york city it was roughly 250000 people out in the streets calling for more climate action greda
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tomorrow at the 6 year old fridays for future founder was speaking earlier here and she was saying that our house is on fire meaning that climate change really does affect everyone and we have seen many older protesters out today as well and these parents and teachers and grandparents are calling on politicians to do more to protect their children's future. cities across germany have also seen mass protest organizers said more than a 1000000 turned out to demand action on climate change children inspired by friday's for future were joined by parents grandparents and many supporters in berlin they marched for hours through the city center converging on the brandenburg gate. meanwhile chancellor angela merkel's government gave its response announcing a 50000000000 euro climate protection plan but the german fridays for future
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organizers slammed the package as disastrous saying it failed to include serious measures to stop runaway temperature increases it's all about the future germany's government presented its climate package and berlin's brand new museum for 2 coasts museum of questions about the future its message it has heard and understood the package is touted as a major step at the start chancellor merkel admitted that germany will not reach its climate goals in 2020 but said it will by 2030. commission is it's very important to me that the document we are presenting today communicates that 1st of all we believe we can reach the targets and that we really have set the foundation for doing so. the goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent as compared to $990.00 levels germany is still far off that target and this
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is how the government plans to catch up by 2030. climate changing carbon dioxide will be priced petrol and heating oil will cost more however commuters will get some tax relief flying will become more expensive through higher carbon tax train travel will be cheaper through reduced value added tax on tickets and the faltering development of green electricity is to be quick and p.r. months we have also results not just to set things in motion but to keep an eye on it all to carry out a kind of monitoring which we understand to be within the framework of the climate protection law so we can see how we are progressing. uncle americal seems to be on the defensive and was quick to nip criticism in the bad. side of politico this is where politics and science disagree and impatient young people to put it politics is about that which is possible murky if the german government plans to invest 54000000000 euros to slow climate warming over the next 4 years without
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stacking up any new debt. to talk more about this joined by our chief political editor michaela couth no because i have to ask you since the kind of emergency action that millions of protesters around the world called for all this what. we already got reactions for the climate fight is the future movement here and many the basics said that this is not a breakthrough these $22.00 pages that i have here of this plan of the german government and also greenpeace and the actually condemned this accusing the so-called grand coalition because that's the product of this coalition that we have here saying that they lack moral responsibility on the issue of climate so resoundingly no from all climate activists here and me now under the plan germany wants to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse emissions by 2030 is that achievable . well depends on who you ask the experts now or the climate action side say not
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with this action plan it's to see it's not the big breakthrough there's not enough bans on old technology in there and there's not enough the future to prove policy i'm going to machall also another press conference said that whether you fulfill certain goals what actually those c o 2 emissions are in the end depends on so many factors that it's simply not possible to pin it down right now. but the short answer is yes it would be achievable but the big an open question still is whether this plan will be enough to do that germany was once a front runner in climate action in fact it made headlines for it essentially coming up with a plan to completely reduce fossil fuel altogether chancellor merkel is even called the climate change lawyer but it's clearly made a point of racketing down its ambitions why has it lost its lead. well there's
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a couple of factors it's true i'm going to machall she's been in power for 14 years now almost and she framed herself right at the beginning to book about climate change being existential threat. and then the big question is well why didn't she work in that direction more and she is essentially somebody who tackles crises when they emerged there was the financial crisis there was the migration crisis and we shouldn't underestimate that the amount of political traction the issue of climate got just over these past 12 months because of. and people actually taking this to the streets so what we're seeing happening here right now is politicians responding to pressure from the streets and what we have in our hands right now is the political compromise that was possible that's what i'm going to machall stressed so essentially says she's somebody who responds. to crisis you also phased out nuclear
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power than she wanted and that created another big problem and achieving goals the open question now is is this the attempt that will make germany's targets evil and that is an open question right now. is chief political editor mikhail occlusion a thanks so much and welcome now to some of the other stories making news around the world washington says it will deploy more troops and military equipment to saudi arabia following attacks on the country's oil infrastructure last weekend the u.s. and saudi governments are blaming iran for the strikes but tehran denies involvement the u.s. says it is not planning to retaliate. president donald trump has rejected u.s. media reports about his alleged misconduct an intelligence whistleblower reportedly claimed that trump had pressured ukrainian authorities to investigate the son of political rival joe biden trump says the allegations are partisan and unfounded.
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the police in egypt have broken up anywhere anti-government protests hundreds of people gathered in cairo in one of the 1st such rallies since president abdul fattah el-sisi came to power 5 user guide the call went out online to stage protests against alleged government corruption. to the u.s. state of nevada now and a disappointment for people hoping to get a glimpse of extraterrestrial life a student had posted an event on facebook inviting people to storm the state secretive area 51 military base which is long rumored to be to house government secrets about u.f.o.'s and aliens well despite millions on facebook indicating they would join the raid the turnout didn't quite live up to the hype. there was some revelers
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a few outlandish costumes but just not many earthlings and definitely no flying sources at the perimeter fence of this remote military base after an overwhelming response on social media only a 100 people showed up they were truly and fine it's worth off after that incredible you wouldn't believe it on their feet. although believe are there are aliens there are any. but far from catching a glimpse of e.t. the much hyped raid was what some party girl is wanted to see the most we came out the see the dumb people make a run for it. why would you ever miss this a bunch of random people in weird costumes standing outside of a government base. why would you want to miss that that's a one lifetime experience. the u.s. air force wraps up the security around area $51.00 ahead of the event is the nevada
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testing training range where it tests spy planes and trains star of the site was so secret that the u.s. government to come till 2013 to admit it even existed. just a few people were detained and at the end of the night new aliens were freed the secrets that area $51.00 holds are still under wraps seems like the truth is still out there. in football now shaka kept up their revival under new coach david wagner when they hosted minds in friday's bonus of the game so what siddharth put shock ahead in the 1st half with his 2nd goal of the season to remove the move applied for mines making it 11 but shock ahead the last were a mean hybrid scored late winner in the uni 9th minute making it shelters 3rd consecutive
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