this is deja news a live from berlin young people keep up the pressure for action on climate for isis doing this to wait. to get them to act. just as safe. following huge global demonstrations attended by millions. and others are holding the 1st ever u.s. climate summit at the united nations. the german the german government response

chancellor angela merkel's coalition agrees on a $58000000000.00 euro climate protection package protesting students say the plan is to disastrous fails to fix the crisis. and briere scenes of protest in egypt crowds return to top near square angry over claims of corruption against the president and military is the 1st sign of public outrage being. after a crackdown on dissent. a michael ok welcome to the program. protests to demand action on climate change have drawn huge crowds with an estimated $4000000.00 people taking part in demonstrations in almost every country around the world the movement started with children skipping school on fridays and has grown into

a global force uniting young and old and young people will keep up the pressure today holding the 1st ever youth climate summit at the united nations in new york. they believe to be the largest climate protests in history the. tens of thousands in new york join millions around the globe day message it is now to act. on wall street's doorstep the girl who's become the voice of a generation right now this is an emergency our house is on fire was. and it's not just the young people's house we only live am it takes all of us to months large sections of brazil have been a black eyes of the amazon fires with the focus of sao paulo's protest. demonstrate his anger was directed chiefly at president china both in our us

government it's accused of allowing big agribusiness to burn the forests and turn it into farmland. the people called by worried about the destruction of the amazon that's happening at the moment of all it's also gnarls government isn't combating it because his supporters started the fires is that. the will is great in the good or appealing for adults to join children in this movement. in mexico nobel laureates joined young people at a protest in the country south east combi as former president warning that climate change is now a greater threat the nuclear weapons. are you. 8 we are united in calling for an end to the era of fossil fuels and we're demanding climate justice for all that hard are. such words for example that the united nations in new york.

and secretary general antonio good chance rang a bell to mock the international day of peace to die this year's event is devoted to the risks which climate change poses to harmony around the world. cities across germany have also seen mass protests organizers said more than a 1000000 turned out to demand action on climate change meanwhile german chancellor angela merkel's government has responded by announcing a 50000000000 euro climate protection plan merkel admitted the country will not reach its climate goals in 2020 but said it will by 2030 the new measures include a charge on carbon dioxide emissions which may push up the price of petrol and oil heating plane travel should become more expensive but transport costs will be lower for those using public transportation in trains and green electricity development is to be stepped up to talk more about this i'm joined by our chief political

editor like hello couth no we can't i have to ask your sister kind of emergency action that millions of protesters around the world called for well this what is now and we already got reactions for the climate fight it's the future movement here and many faces said that this is not so break through these $22.00 pages that i have here of this i supplied of the german government and also greenpeace and many actually condemned this accusing the so-called grand coalition because that's the product of this coalesce and that we have here saying that they lack moral responsibility on the issue of climate so over sounding know 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 on the climate action side say not with this plan it's too big it's not the big breakthrough there's not enough. on old technology in

there and there's not enough the future to prove policy i'm going to machall also in a press conference said that whether you fulfill certain goals what actually c o 2 emissions are in the end depends on so many fact is that it's simply not possible to pin it down right now so the well the short answer is yes it would be achievable but the big open question still is whether this plan will be enough to do that you know germany was once a front runner in climate action in fact it made headlines for essentially coming up with a plan to completely reduce fossil fuel altogether chancellor merkel is even called the climate chancellor but it's clearly made a point of ratcheting down its ambitions why has it lost its lead. well there's a couple of fact is it's true i'm going to cause she's been in power for 14 years now almost and she framed herself right at the beginning cheshire botha book about

climate change being it existential threat. and then the big question is well why didn't she work in that direction more. she is essentially somebody who tackles crises when they emerge and there was the financial crisis there was a 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. 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. i'm going to machall stressed so essentially somebody who responds to crisis she also phased out nuclear power than she wanted and that created another big problem and it's even 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 and intelligence whistleblower reportedly claim that trump had pressured ukrainian authorities to investigate the son of political rival joe biden trump says the allegations are partisan and unfounded. an unusual sight in egypt on friday night anti-government protesters taking to the streets of cairo alexandria and other

cities such demonstrations have become very rare in egypt following a crackdown on dissent under president el-sisi who took power in 2013 the latest protests were prompted by allegations of corruption against l.c.c. and the military which the president has denied last night crowds gathered in cairo's tahrir square chanting nice easy police broke up the event with tear gas and made several arrests. with michaelson is a journalist covering the middle east from cairo and joins us now on the line we thanks for joining us what have you seen and heard about these protests. well we saw some evidence including video evidence of protests in downtown cairo in cairo is to hurry a square that you mentioned in the port cities of alexandria and suez and also rural areas like i'm yet to come on for hala that these protests took the form of

small groups of people chanting for the fall of the regime and against president i've been fucked and sisi as well as in some cases paring down pictures or posters assisi. and these were pretty small but quite significant protests given that demonstrations are essentially illegal in egypt and so those people that turned out onto the street risked a lot. to be clear again what specifically with a protest. well we had chance against c.c. personally demanding that he leave office as well as chance against his military led government now what these protests are the allegations of corruption that you mentioned these came from a former military contractor called mohammad ali who is an exile in spain who incited people to protest to voice their feelings of frustration. you mention the

fact that it's risky for these protesters so 2 part question here just how risky is aid and how did organizers get people on the streets. i'd suggest 3 risky people who in the past have been accused of organizing protests who seem to organize protests including known political activists who've been imprisoned for long periods allegations of torture and also imprisonment where they have no access to their families or to the legal system in any way so the risks are extremely high for people. in terms of organization this was spurred by this contractor mohammed ali who has been releasing these babies videos for the past couple of weeks and he recently for which to tell egyptians to call on egyptians to go out into the street after the end of a football match yesterday and he said peacefully make their voices heard and so

the result was small groups of people seemingly unafraid to briefly express themselves despite the huge risks to going out into the streets for the 1st time in many years. journalist rick michel saying in cairo thank you so much melissa. protests are again underway in hong kong today with increasing tension between pro-democracy activists and supporters of the chinese government a demonstration took place in the outlying district of twin moon where anti-government activist birds a chinese flag here by public transport stations were shut down riot police were standing ready warning protesters to disperse. well the hong kong protests have spread to universities around the world chinese students studying abroad are facing off on campuses in other countries like australia. was god.

was scuffles out australia's university of queensland in july when probation demonstrators disrupted a rally in support of the hong kong protests. video posted on social media shows the 2 sides hurling abuse of each other while the chinese national anthem blasted from a speaker. was. oh. this was not an isolated incident on a campus where about 17 percent of students come from china protesters critical of beijing's policies are frequently come fronted by chinese communist party loyalists . it's a situation echoed in other international universities with large chinese student bodies at the university of all clinton new zealand a video posted on you tube show to he said exchange between pro hong kong

demonstrators and supporters of china. is different from china because the part of china if they're like china up it up by the ok i got a lot of time was how much was i tell you. lennon will at the college and others around the world have been vandalized multiple times the walls made up of messages of support have been a key feature of the hong kong protests at simon fraser university in canada a man was filmed ripping down the notes it's tactics like these that have raised concerns because they could threaten freedom of speech on campus. protesters also say they have been intimidated on threatened after taking part in student rallies against china with much of the abuse happening on chinese social media platforms like we chat or weibo.

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